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The advertised BPOL ordinance exempts businesses at $2 million or less, then taxes all receipts once a business passes it. A restaurant doing $38,500 a week is at the line. The hearing is Sept. 15.
VHN Staff · · Fredericksburg & Central Virginia
Staff would take the daily food truck limit from four hours to six in commercial and industrial districts, and replace the 'associated service use' test that has governed restaurants in office and industrial buildings. Nothing is adopted, and the numbers are still in brackets.
VHN Staff · · Northern Virginia
A Richmond commission wants the city to seek a lower blood-alcohol threshold in the 2027 General Assembly session. It is not yet an official city position, but it could change the legal line for any Virginian who drives after drinking.
VHN Staff · · Richmond
The Golden Pineapple goes to Shamin Hotels' vice president of operations. Bennett-Parker carried the food-to-beverage ratio rewrite as a delegate, then won a Senate seat mid-session. The rest of the 26 awards are named September 15.
VHN Staff · · Richmond
BriefingPolicy & Legislation
The tiered ratio takes hold, the Ordinary Awards close voting, and the Styrofoam ban widens. Short takes and links to the reporting.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
The session is usually summarized as the food-to-beverage rewrite plus a list of defeats. Against the legislature's own bill file, several of those defeats are attached to the wrong bill numbers, and one subject widely reported as dead became law on a different bill.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
