Community Rallies Behind Sebastopol Pitmaster After City Shuts Down Smokers
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Community Rallies Behind Sebastopol Pitmaster After City Shuts Down Smokers
The future of A&M BBQ is up in the air after the city of Sebastopol ordered the popular Black-owned restaurant to stop using its outdoor commercial smokers due to zoning violations. According to the Press Democrat, the order followed dozens of neighborhood complaints about overnight smoke, forcing pitmaster Kris Austin to relocate his cooking operations three miles outside city limits and haul food into town multiple times a day. Dozens of suppo…
‘I can’t keep this up’: Sebastopol BBQ owner looks for path forward amid enforcement, complaints
A&M BBQ pitmaster Kris Austin is driving 30 miles a day in his diesel truck to shuttle food from his commercial smokers to his restaurant in order to comply with Sebastopol's zoning code.
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