SANDPOINT — The City Council debated several proposed changes to the city’s open container code, including allowing alcohol to be drunk openly at City Beach during permitted events.

The request to serve alcohol at a select area of City Beach comes from the organizers of CHAFE-150, an annual bike riding fundraiser for the Lake Pend Oreille School District by the Sandpoint Rotary. Race coordinator Mariah Williams said at the council’s Aug. 6 meeting that the construction of Averill Hospitality’s 56 Bridge St. hotel will displace the event’s long-standing starting and end point.

"For more than a decade, we’ve had our check-in, start, finish and after-ride party on the lawn of the Best Western,” Williams said. “With that redevelopment, we would like to move our after-ride activity to City Be

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