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A majority of Orlando commissioners do not want to end after-midnight alcohol service downtown as the city looks at options to improve nightlife safety.
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Commissioners Patty Sheehan, Bakari Burns, Tony Ortiz and Shan Rose indicated they were against shutting down after midnight service during a May 19 workshop, though Sheehan said she thought businesses needed to do more to help control the environment downtown after midnight.
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Robert Stuart and Jim Gray indicated they are for stopping alcohol sales during the midnight to 2 a.m. period, but Gray also said he was open to ideas on how to continue after-midnight alcohol service safely.
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