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Single-Bottle Alcohol Ban Plan Upsets Sacramento County Market Owners

SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) — Sacramento County is considering an ordinance which would prevent new liquor stores from selling single bottles of alcoholic beverages.

Liquor store and small-market owner Guri Kang is ready for a fight against the proposed ordinance.

"We have unity now, and we are going to show them today," he said. "It's do or die."

The county says small bottles and single beers attract crime and violence, so they want the option to ban them in new liquor stores.

Kang says those sales are his bread and butter, and cleaning up county crime isn't up to him.

"Its not my job, it's their job. They are they elected officials," he said.

Current stores would be grandfathered in, but if Kang wanted to open a second store, or change locations, his store could fall under the ban.

"I have no choice to go somewhere else, looking for more opportunities. I can't do it," he said.

Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Susan Peters says she doesn't think the change will hurt future businesses, and insists that the ban would be on a case-by-case basis.

"If you go to the city of Sacramento, Rancho Cordova, Elk Grove, Citrus Heights, Placer County, they all have an ordinance similar," said Peters.

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