Popular beach left off list again for summer legal drinking program.
For the second consecutive year, Vancouver’s English Bay beach is not being recommended to be among the beaches selected this summer to allow people to legally drink alcohol.
The report doesn’t provide details of the incidents, when they happened or if any are connected to the well-attended fireworks’ nights at English Bay. Third Beach is located a short bicycle ride north of English Bay and popular for drum circles. “With respect to disorderly and abusive behaviour, particularly at English Bay and Sunset beaches, the VPD had to get involved to settle behavioural and law-breaking issues,” the report said. “There were concerns around glass bottles and containers posing a safety risk to the public.”
Those seven beaches were not without their problems, either, with the report saying there was “a significant increase in operational and enforcement issues and challenges for those beach pilot sites and into the downtown area.” “The main impacts to park board staff consisted of dealing with public outrage or disrespect, inadequate staffing/support on the beach and impacts to physical safety,” the report said.
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