Don’t call it Bourbon Street.

That’s the message Denver’s business licensing department hopes people take away from its proposal to allow drinking publicly in well-defined areas around the city.

The Department of Excise and Licenses calls the idea a “common consumption area.” In a nutshell, it’s a confined area where you can drink while walking outside without getting in trouble.

Here’s how it would work: A business applies for the special liquor license, likely along with adjacent storefronts, to create a strip where people can drink while walking, shopping or doing anything else available in bounds. The drinks can only come from restaurants and bars within that area — not from outside vendors.

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