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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Jennifer Stallings, City Clerk
Deb Lang, Assistant Corporation Counsel
Alex Voigt, Deputy Chief of Staff
DATE: January 3, 2022
SUBJECT:
An Ordinance amending Sections 6-2, 6-4, 6-10, 6-13, and 6-28 of Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Liquor, of the Code of Ordinances.
PURPOSE:
The proposed amendments are to clarify existing code sections and to enhance sections of the code in order to accommodate changing and popular business models.
BACKGROUND:
As part of an ongoing effort to improve upon the liquor code, the proposed amendments include modifications that will clarify existing sections, without proposing substantive revisions. First, the modification of the Liquor Store definition as contained in Sec. 6-2 will help clarify the definition by itemizing the criteria to determine an appropriate location for a liquor store. Second, the modification of Sec. 6-4 will emphasize that a liquor license is always required in order to allow alcohol consumption at a business by adding the existing definition of Sale to that section. Third, a minor modification is contained in Sec. 6-13(c) correcting the language from "Special Use Permit" to the appropriate "Conditional Use Permit."
Substantive changes are proposed in several sections. First, Sec 6-2 - Definitions, contains the addition of a new endorsement, Boutique Package Sales Endorsement, as well as the addition of the option for a single guest tap in brewery/brewpubs and craft breweries, in order to keep up with changing and popular business models. While BYOB is available to licensees upon application and approval, the proposed change to the BYOB definition properly identifies the BYOB option as an endorsement. Second, proposed changes to Sec. 6-10(b) add clarification to the BYOB Endorsement and clarify that BYOB is for beer and wine only, something that is not clear when reading the current code. Proposed modifications to this section add additional clarifying language wh...
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