Fresno County Supervisors denied a new liquor license in southeast Fresno on Tuesday after Luis Chavez, the area’s representative, said it would be one more to a neighborhood saturated with alcohol vendors.

Chavez thinks would-be liquor store owners are trying to skirt the city’s strict rules on selling alcohol by venturing into nearby county islands. He’s now considering authoring licensing rules similar to those he co-authored as a Fresno city councilmember.

“What I think people are doing is I think they’re trying to circumvent the process that the city of Fresno has in place,” Chavez told GV Wire. “Me being one of those co-sponsors, I knew the background and trying to set up liquor within county islands because they think the rules don’t apply and they could just set up willy-nilly.”

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