Both sides will have to wait a little longer to find out how the Dothan City Commission will handle the matter.
Derrick Tiller said District 2 is heading in the right direction with efforts to transform the former Grandview Elementary School into a youth center and make improvements to Wiregrass Park. Tiller said he personally knocked on doors in the neighborhood asking for people’s input, getting more than 200 signatures on a petition against the liquor store.
The proposed liquor store would be in a suite adjacent to Sandhar’s Grocery. The application was made by Navjiwan Kaur. “Do you think I want to put myself in the area where there’s crime? No,” she said. “I bring my children to work with me a lot. Do I want to bring my children where there’s crime. No. Do I want the customers who come to my store to be in the place where there’s crime? No, I don’t want that either. We’ve been doing business in that area for about 25 years now, and … we have never had any problems. Never. And we pay every single tax.