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City releases first brewery text amendment (access required)

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: February 20,2013

What the changes announced Monday won't do: open up more parts of the city, besides industrially zoned areas, to breweries. But such a change might be proposed under the second phase of studying the city's policies governing breweries, according to Bridget Dixon, a city planner.


On the Level: Bridget Dixon is drafting zoning policy for Charlotte beer-makers (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: February 19,2013

It was 10:30 a.m. in a cubicle on the eighth floor of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center. So there was no beer. About 50 people work in the Charlotte planning department, but we specifically wanted to talk to the beer-lady: Bridget Dixon. We wanted to know why she worked for the department from 2003 to 2006, left, and then came back. And we wanted to talk about beer. Good beer.