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<br /> <br /> STAFF REPORT <br /> <br />TO: Mayor Fischer and Members of City Council <br /> <br />FROM: Heidi Heller, City Clerk/HR Manager <br /> <br />DATE: June 23, 2025 <br /> RE: Ordinance 919, Amending City Code 703, Intoxicating Liquor <br /> <br /> <br />ACTION TO BE CONSIDERED: <br />Consider amending City Code Section 703, Intoxicating Liquor, to add a third restaurant liquor <br />license. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: <br />City Code Section 703.110 has restrictions on the number of off-sale and on-sale liquor licenses <br />that the city can and will issue. Some of the license number limitations are per state statute <br />which are based on the city’s population. <br /> <br />703.110. RESTRICTIONS ON NUMBER OF LICENSES. <br /> <br />(1) The number of "off-sale" licenses within the City shall not exceed three (3) until <br />such time as the population of the City reaches twenty thousand (20,000) residents. At such time <br />one (1) additional "off-sale" license shall become available. <br /> <br />(2) No more than six (6) on-sale intoxicating liquor licenses, no more than two (2) “on- <br />sale restaurant” intoxicating liquor licenses, and no more than one (1) “on-sale restaurant-event <br />center” intoxicating liquor license shall be issued within the City of Little Canada. It is hereby <br />noted that State Statute allows the City up to six (6) on-sale intoxicating liquor licenses, plus two <br />(2) additional on-sale intoxicating liquor licenses authorized by Chapter 240, 1987 Laws. State <br />Statute also allows the city an unlimited number of “on-sale restaurant” intoxicating liquor <br />licenses. <br /> <br />The current limits & licensees are: <br /> <br />Type of Liquor License # Licenses allowed # Licenses issued Issued to <br />Off-Sale 3 2 Tierney’s Liquor <br /> CV Liquor <br />Restaurant 2 2 Porterhouse <br /> El Sombrero <br />Restaurant-Event Center 1 0 <br />On-Sale Billiard Hall Only 1 1 Twin City Billiards <br />On-Sale 7 5 Hoggsbreath <br /> Gordies <br /> Mama T’s <br /> Saxon Lanes <br /> Little Venetian