By ROBERT LINNEHAN
So what’s it going to be, voters of Moorestown Township? Do you want liquor licenses in Moorestown Township? Do you want to restrict them to the mall only? You’ll get your say on Nov. 8 in the upcoming general elections.
Township Solicitor Thomas Coleman found that there were no deficiencies in either petitions that members of the Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust submitted to the township. It was his recommendation to council that they were legal and should appear as referendum questions on the ballot.
The measure passed unanimously.
Voters will have their say when asked to cast their opinion on two questions. The first would allow as many as six liquor licenses to be sold within the township and the second would restrict those liquor licenses to fine dining restaurants in the Moorestown Mall only.
Members of council stressed that they were not endorsing either of the referendums. It’s basically a procedural move at this point to put them on the ballot, Council Member Chris Chiacchio said.
“We’re not endorsing this at all. Quite the contrary, I have a lot of questions about both of these,” he said. “We all have a lot of homework to do.”
Mayor John Button backed up Chiacchio’s assessment and said that anytime the new possibility of revenue into the township is brought up, he must look at it long and hard.
There are so few new streams of revenue and we can only cut so many things from the budget, he said.
