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"Monterey officials are working to pass an ordinance requiring a permit for drinking alcohol on city beaches.Alcohol is allowed on all Monterey city beaches, as long as it's between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.After\u00A010 p.m., beachgoers are required to have a permit. That might be changing soon because city officials are working to pass an ordinance requiring a permit all the time.\"We've had complaints from some parts of the city about parties on the beach, in the Del Monte Beach area, and so we're trying to address the issue there,\" Monterey Police Chief Dave Hober said.Hober said some people get drunk at the beach and that leads to more violence. Parties on the beaches sometimes lead to illegal bonfires and littering, he said.\"Many coastal cities do not allow drinking on the beaches and so we want to replicate that here in Monterey,\" Hober said.Alcohol is not allowed on Asilomar Beach, Pacific Grove Beaches, Sand City Beaches and Santa Cruz City beaches.Some beachgoers seemed pleased about the possibility of an alcohol permit in Monterey.\u201CYou want to be able to come out and enjoy it. You don't want to be dealing with someone who's intoxicated. Typically, the beach is a family type of place or like today, bringing our dogs to the beach,\" said Carl Felder of Riverside.\"I think it would probably prevent a lot of public chaos and people being drunk in public,\" said Samantha Gomez of Salinas.Others disagreed.\"I don't see it as being quite a problem,\u201D said Barbara May of Monterey. \u201COn the weekends it\u2019s busier. A lot of people who don't live locally come and maybe drink, but I think then all the local people stay away from the beach.\"\"I think that's absolutely crazy,\u2019 said Bill Bachman of Las Vegas. \u201CEverybody comes out to the beach. We like to have a good time. How many hundreds of thousands of people visit these beaches every single year are going to apply for a permit?\u201DPermits are purchased from the parks department and are $65 for non-Monterey residents, $50 for locals, and the permit is for 10 or more people. The money from the permits go to the city.Parks and recreation officials decided to table the ordinance Thursday\u00A0night, giving them more time to work on the details.Police said they hope the ordinance goes into effect before summer."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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