MISQUAH — The City Council convenes Tuesday evening for what may be its most consequential meeting in months, with a brewery license, the largest housing proposal in a generation, and the perennial stop sign all sharing a single agenda — and, lest the evening grow too weighty, the question of a stain on the sidewalk outside the Northern Tap.

Topping the agenda is the license application for the brewery and taproom Annika and Jonas Holt intend to open in the old Co-op creamery (see Business), the Chain’s first. The application is considered likely to pass — “there is broad enthusiasm for a place to sit down with a beer that isn’t the Northern Tap, including, notably, from the Northern Tap,” as one council-watcher put it — though the body is expected to spend a dutiful while on parking, hours, and the eternal question of whether anything good has ever come of change, before approving it anyway.

The council will also hear continued discussion of the proposed eighteen-lot development on the old Hagen pasture, ahead of the formal planning hearing set for July 14. Alderman Pete Hagen, whose late uncle owned the land, remains recused, and the debate — between those who note that the town says it wants young families and those who note what young families require, which is houses — is expected to continue without resolution, as it has since the proposal surfaced this spring.

And the stop sign returns, as it does. The subcommittee charged with studying the corner of Birch and Second is expected to report, and the council is expected, by the unanimous prediction of everyone who has ever watched it, to defer the matter to the fall — taking with it the corner’s own public hearing once noticed for July 14, an evening now fully spoken for by the Hagen matter — a delay Mayor Gloria Vik has already framed as prudence rather than avoidance. “It’s waited sixty-nine years,” she said. “It can wait until the weather turns.” Insiders now suggest an actual decision may finally come in October, a prospect longtime observers are declining to believe until they see a sign standing in the ground.

Among the evening’s lighter items is the matter of the dark stain on the Main Street sidewalk, the lasting mark of Al Lundquist’s ill-fated Fourth-weekend run, which has resisted three washings. Alderman Hagen has proposed a rented pressure washer; Alderman Bunde has proposed leaving it “as a lesson.” This newspaper has already urged, in its editorial pages, that the council do nothing whatsoever, and sees no reason this week to revise that counsel.

The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the city hall. Public comment is invited and, given the agenda, expected. Clerk Donna Skoglund, who has kept the council’s minutes since 1994, advised residents planning to attend to “come early for a chair,” and confirmed that the coffee “will be made, and will be regretted, in the usual way.”