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That's not the original page where they proposed the gun and alcohol ban, it was this one - Error
That notice is an attempt to hide their original plan. They started catching flack and decided to abandon their plan to ban guns.
This is a good reminder that saving a local copy or taking screenshots is good practice. The article link in the OP contains a link to a 61 page PDF, however, rather than saving a copy of the PDF and serving it from their own website, they linked to Bellingham's saved copy. Now when you download it from the city you get a document with empty pages -- clearly the original got replaced with a blank document saved under the same name. All that is left now is the quote in the article (without verification because of the city replaced the file) and that leaves Bellingham officials free to lie about their original intent.