Progress in Utah must always come in "baby steps."
There are blaring headlines all across the Utah print media this morning, with stories from the Standard-Examiner, Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune, reporting that Utah's quirky private club system stands on the verge of abolition.
Key "stakeholders" have been working their fingers to the bone hammering out this new landmark legislation, and needless to say, everyone involved in working out this compromise legislation is feeling quite elated.
For a handy executive summary of the contents of this the bill that all these hard working folks have so very carefully crafted, check out this page from The Senate Site.
From our viewpoint, the provision for new restaurants, which would require a "structural barrier so that facilities for dispensing and storage are not readily visible or accessible by restaurant patrons and apart from dining area," is the most interesting of the new bill's provisions. In that connection we'll go out on a limb and predict that this language will be the first to be excised from this legislation during the 2010 legislative session, after restaurateurs like Chili's say "NO" to the opening of any new restaurants in the still-backward Beehive State.
As the Standard-Examiner sagely says, progress in Utah must always come in "baby steps."
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