LETTER: Resident Asks City Council to Reconsider Changing Current Alcohol Policy

In a "Letter to the Editor," local resident Derek Ives asks the city of Campbell to consider downtown businesses in any changes to the current .

The Campbell City Council on July 19 to discuss possibly amending the current policy.

Changes to Alcohol Policy Can Be Detrimental to Downtown Businesses

City of Campbell!!! Please do not sacrifice the beauty of Downtown by extending Bar hours and amending the "" laws.

You might feel that drinking will help bring more people and more revenue, but you will lose the revenue from having to clean and fix all the things broken during drunken states.

I already catch drunks going to the bathroom in the museum's hedges and on the Redwoods surrounding City Hall. Why would we want to potentially add to this?

Plus the shops downtown are constantly fixing our plants because during the night they are torn out of our pots and thrown about, or our pots are even smashed and broken.

I personally do not think it is worth it. If anyone feels the same way please e-mail our city council members at: cityclerk@cityofcampbell.com

-Derek J. Ives, Campbell resident