21.339 An Ordinance to Allow Beverage Service and Entertainment at Farm Stands PB Recommendation to Council - POST 1st RDGIn the Year Two Thousand Twenty One
Upon the Recommendation of Mayor David J. Narkewicz and Planning & Sustainability
21.339 AN ORDINANCE TO ALLOW BEVERAGE SERVICE AND ENTERTAINMENT AT FARM STANDS UNDER
CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES
An Ordinance of the City of Northampton, Massachusetts, providing that the Code of Ordinances, City of
Northampton, Massachusetts, be amended to allow beverage service and entertainment licenses as part
of agricultural farm stands under certain circumstances.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Northampton, in City Council assembled, as follows:
Amend Chapter 350 Attachments 4, 5, 24
Under category of Uses Allowed by right in SR/RR/WSP/SC tables, amend as follows
Agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, noncommercial forestry, the growing of all vegetables and a
temporary (not to exceed erection or use for a period of four months in any one year) greenhouse or
stand for retail sale of agricultural or farm products raised primarily on the same premises. The use
described above includes the following only when licensed annually by the License Commission or with a
Mayoral license:
1. service of alcoholic beverages produced on site and/or;
2. accessory events and entertainment unrelated to onsite production not to exceed 412 such
events in one year
Under category of USES ALLOWED BY SITE PLAN in SR/RR/WSP/SC tables, amend as follows:
Year-round greenhouse/stand for wholesale and retail sale of agricultural farm products raised on site.
The use described above includes the following only when licensed annually by the License Commission
or with a Mayoral license:
1. accessory events and entertainment unrelated to onsite production exceeding 12 such events per
year.