AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO BAN BBQ RESTAURANTS

iamatexan.com ^ | July 25, 2015

[PROCON]

“If this resolution passes, we would be forced to close or move. It would destroy Austin barbecue.” says Aaron Franklin, owner of Franklin’s BBQ in Austin.

Austin, Texas has long been a destination for Americans of all stripes in their quest to find the best barbecue in the nation.

However, if the Austin City Council gets their way, food tourism may soon be a thing of the past.

Austin City Council members passed a preliminary plan in April to put restrictions on smoke from barbeque restaurants. Some Austin residents complain of the barbecue smoke saying they can’t enjoy their homes they purchased before some of these restaurants moved in.

The city council’s current proposal will require smoke diffusers and will also limit the amount of time that restaurants can smoke. These restrictions will require at least $100,000 in extra investments for most barbecue restaurants as they will be forced to buy extra smokers along with severely expensive diffusers, and in some cases will have to lease or purchase more property.

[brivette]

Moose limbs? lol!!!!!!

[rktman]

Couldn’t happen to a nicer town. There’s always SXSW for them to gain some revenues for the city coffers. Is there a possible solution to trap the offending odors/gases by using exhaust scrubbers or some new high tech method?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well okay, it is a nuisance problem for pre-existing home owners. It’s not like they moved next to the eateries and complained.

[catfish1957]

Austin is not only weird, it is insane.

[cripplecreek]

I see the feminists are now going after grilling outside as a ritualistic display that reminds women that their place is in the kitchen.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Texas without BBQ?

[deport]

MUSLIMS. Texas has the eighth-largest Muslim population in the United States. In 1990
there were approximately 140,000 Muslims in Texas, which represented 0.7 percent of the state
population and 2.8 of the total Muslim population in the United States. Most Muslims are
concentrated in the urban centers of the state. Houston has some twenty-two Islamic centers and
mosques and a Muslim population of 57,000, and Dallas has fifteen centers and 30,000 Muslims. The
Muslim population is 4,000 in Fort Worth and 3,000 in Arlington. Austin and San Antonio each
have 5,000, El Paso has 1,500, and there are small Muslim communities in Bryan-College Station,
Corpus Christi, and Kingsville. Among the more prominent Islamic organizations in the state are the
Muslim Students Association, the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim Arab Youth Association,
the Islamic Circle of North America, and the Al Quaran-Was-Sunnah Society.

[dfwgator]

What’s next, Salsa from New York City?

[HiTech RedNeck]

It might have been zoned for mixed, and the BBQ a local issue (they might have not cared as much had it been McDonaldses etc.)

[PROCON]

Portlandia of the Southwest?

[left that other site]

Austin is a big tourist town, and restaurants are part of that attraction.

The “town fathers” are risking the livelihoods of a lot more than BBQ joints by kowtowing to political correctness.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh, because men like to grill outside

[uglybiker]

Austin aka Moscow on the Colorado.

[left that other site]

But what would a Texas music festival be WITHOUT BBQ?

[G Larry]

Hey Austin!

Fire your city council!

I’d love to be the Conservative running on a Pro-BBQ platform!

[left that other site]

No Doubt.

[wagglebee]

The ONLY good thing about Austin is the BBQ.

[unixfox]

I would bet that Franklins BBQ is chock full of liberal employees. I wonder how they like their utopia now.

[AFreeBird]

Banning BBQ anywhere is just downright unAmerican.

[smokingfrog]