INDIANAPOLIS -- A Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area, or DORA, will not be coming to Mass Ave anytime soon. The Mass Ave Cultural Arts District has been exploring creating a DORA for the last few months. Leaders liked the idea of opening up the streets for more festivals and fairs during the day. ”You could do a First Friday kind of gallery walk that allows people to take their wine from one store or gallery to another," said Meg Storrow, the Board President of Mass Ave Cultural District. "You could have outdoor festivals that, right now, require a permit and you have to have a boundary around the festival, the DORA would take that away." The DORA would also allow Mass Ave to create its own ordinance about what can happen on its streets. ”You write your own ordinance, that is approved by the council, and that ordinance can include things like additional regulations above and beyond what's in the state law now," Storrow said. Some bar owners also saw that ordinance as a way to regulate what's happening outside their doors late at night, as well. Currently, open container laws allow people to have drinks on Mass Ave sidewalks. "Right now, you can bring booze and you can have a party on the corner," said Curtis McGaha. "Right now, if you want to. Bottle of booze or a case of beer or anything like that." McGaha owns Tini and Almost Famous on Mass Ave. He said in the past they've had problems with people drinking out in the streets and causing a disturbance. "We've talked with IMPD and we've cut back on that drastically," McGaha said. "People partying in their car and doing street parties, dancing in the streets, disrupting traffic. And it's not even our patrons, it's people who are drinking their car showing up and wanting to party on the Cultural Trail." If a DORA was established, they could crack down on that further. Enforcing what kind of cup people could be drinking out of is one of many regulations. ”A DORA would really give us more rules on what's allowed on Mass Ave, but who's going to enforce those rules is really the problem we ran into," McGaha said. IMPD already patrols Mass Ave. If the Mass Ave Cultural District wanted to enforce a DORA, it would need to hire additional security. Storrow said that's not something the organization is capable of doing. Concerns have also been put forward by bar owners on liability around people leaving their bars with alcohol. ”Because DORAs are new insurance agents are maybe a little bit more conservative until there's more of a track record with DORAs," Storrow said. All of this was discussed at a public meeting in Mass Ave in January. Neighbors, business owners, elected officials and more were there to discuss the DORA. At this point, Storrow said a DORA is not something Mass Ave is looking for. ”The sentiment was that those are targeted to areas that need the business and Mass Ave has a lot of business," Storrow said. "It's very healthy." In the last year, Nine Irish Brothers and World of Beer have both closed on Mass Ave, but Storrow said that doesn't tell the true picture of Mass Ave's business health. ”I’ve been hearing anecdotally this was the best year for many of those businesses sense COVID," Storrow said. "And it's great. We have cyclical closings and openings. We just had a new toy story, that opened, it's beautiful." McGaha agreed. ”Mass Ave is doing well right now, and we don't want to let the genie out of the bottle," he said. As of right now, there are no Designated Outdoor Refreshment Areas in Indianapolis. Leaders in both Broad Ripple and Fountain Square told FOX59/CBS4 they are not currently considering one.