Jim Schutze with the Observer wrote about it last week; this week, it’s the DMN. So it must be true: The city is looking to gain control of the bar scene on Lowest Greenville, that area of the street between Belmont and Ross. The plan being set in motion by Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano won’t have much of an impact on this year’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration, not that it’s actually needed any more on the area’s biggest payday of the year. But the plan that Hunt and Medrano are working on — requiring businesses that want to stay open past 11:30 p.m. or so to apply for special use permits, which would allow the city to control the number of actual "bars" in operation late at night, when most of the problems occur — could have a big impact on the future of a part of our neighborhood that needs a little order.
