Dolores Town Board to review licensing and fee changes on Aug. 10
Dolores will hear proposed licensing and fee changes Aug. 10, and the ordinance could affect businesses, events, and permit holders who rely on town approvals.
The Dolores Board of Trustees will take public comment before considering Ordinance No. 591, Series 2026, on second reading at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10, at Dolores Town Hall, 601 Central Avenue. The measure would amend the town’s licensing and fee regulations.
Dolores currently charges a $25 business license fee and requires town licenses for businesses, home occupations, massage studios, special events, tree services, transient merchants, mobile home parks, cabarets, dance halls, circuses and carnivals under municipal codes 5.04, 5.08, 5.13 and 5.20. Opening a business requires a business license application, a building inspection and a fire inspection, with other permits or certificates of health or occupancy sometimes required.
The town’s existing fee schedule also covers dog licenses, document requests, park use, camping permits, building permits, plan review, temporary certificates of occupancy and water and sewer rates. Dolores is also taking applications through the town clerk for retail and medical marijuana licenses.
People who want to weigh in before the board votes can review the proposed ordinance at Town Hall during regular business hours, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with a noon-to-1 p.m. lunch closure. Regular board meetings are held the second and fourth Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m., and in-person meetings can also be attended virtually.
The Aug. 10 hearing follows a run of related code updates. Ordinance No. 587, Series 2025, rewrote Chapter 5.24 on liquor-service establishments and modernized how special event permits and alcohol sales are issued. That ordinance also made the Board of Trustees the local licensing authority for beer and liquor matters, authorized the town clerk to issue temporary permits under state law and set liquor-licensing fees by resolution within state limits.
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