One, two, three, there we go.

All right.

So in your weekly packets last week, I sent basically clips of the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission's website explaining how a DORA is created.

The process, a um ordinance must be passed by the municipality.

There are Dora in Spanish.

I just call it the Dora in Spanish.

All right.

So basically the municipality has the ability to create a Dora, which is a designated outdoor refreshment area.

And these are generally located in areas of communities that might be downtown, might also be uh around parks or neighborhoods where you want to have festivals.

A DORA does not issue liquor licenses.

What it does do is allows for the open carry of alcoholic beverages that are purchased from approved vendors and or retail establishments, and they have to stay within a designated area.

So the best basic way to describe or uh to give you an example of this is you're creating a outdoor for lack of better term, beer garden outside of the license premise of a liquor establishment.

Um there had been discussions a couple of years ago when this uh was first put in place or being talked about as uh an opportunity that maybe we would put around uh Little League Park whenever um Clark Fest was going on.

However, it took a couple of years for the state of Indiana to implement these, um, and now there's over 30 of them throughout the state in in various communities.

Um I've asked uh representatives from River Heritage also to be here, as well as Mark Palmer.

Uh Mark and another employee from the town went up to a uh uh conference in um plain field last year to learn about uh DORAS and how they are established.

And really tonight I just want to give you an overview of what they are, get your feedback as to whether we want to move forward with this, and if we do, then what parameters would you like us to build in restrictions, different things like that.

So that's that's the goal for tonight.

So I keep wanting to reach for that one, but that one's not active.

Um so first of all, I guess I want to show you what our neighboring communities have done.

And so this is Jeffersonville's DORA right here is the Big Four Bridge.

Then this is their NUCO Arts District, and extends all the way down to the river and it comes along the river all the way over to the second street bridge, which is uh where the Jeffersonian is located.

Um ironically, they did not take it to their municipal boundary, which would have also included the bar on Market Street, um, just south of the Hain property.

Um, but they stopped it at 2nd Street.

There was some discussion uh among staff today um as to whether two communities could create DORAs and they be adjacent to each other, and you could walk from one DORA to another DORA without having any issues, and that's one of the questions that we're going to have to find out from the state as to whether that's allowed.

Um I uh a couple years ago I was over in the Northeast Cincinnati area, and they have a four or five community DORA there that is centered along a um uh little Miami uh river, which you can kayak and canoe on, and then also the little Miami bike pedestrian trail follows the river, and so it's about a seven to eight mile area that their Dora exists in, and it does run from community to community.

But that's a question that we will find out an answer for.

They have exempted out a few blocks.

I'm not quite sure why those blocks are there.

Church.

Firehouse is one of them, I think.

Firehouse here, church.

That's a church right there where you're at.

Okay.

I think so.

No, that's a church, isn't it?

Might be one over here.

Okay.

Good points.

I didn't even I hadn't even taken the time to drive to see what those were, but I those are good points.

Yeah, because the other one right there is the clock tower church.

Yeah.

The one right here.

All right.

A community can create up to seven DORAS.

And DORAS can be what I would call permanent or they can be temporary.

And temporary would be like an event.

Such as if you wanted to create a Dora, and we're going to use the example down in South Clarksville here in a minute.

If you wanted to create a DORA down there for the concert series, you could actually put it in place temporarily just for the concerts, or you could put it in place for the entire area.

I'm gonna while we're sitting here on this website, I want to show you a couple other things, and then we'll circle back to them.

Of course, a lot of people always look at Carmel as good things and bad things.

Interestingly enough, uh, and I'm I'm going there not because of the map, but what I want to go there for is signage.

You do have to sign the perimeter of a DORA, and ironically, they are playing again on the colors red and green, green go, red stop.

So as you enter into the boundary of the DORA, you see this sign.

If you are leaving the area, then you find the red signs.

The circle here is a medallion, I believe, that they put on the sidewalks at the property boundary of the Dora.

Um blow this up a little bit.

The green, blue, and red, obviously not permitted, and welcome here.

The blue actually represents participating business who provides beverages within the DORA.

And another one is that glasses have to have a logo on them that shows what the glass uh should be used for, um, and that these are the only approved uh glasses for which a beverage can be consumed from within a DORA.