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Item No. 2B <br />Meeting Date: April 3, 2006 <br />Type of Business: Work Session <br />City Administrator Review _______ <br /> <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Jim Ericson, Community Development Director <br />Item Title/Subject: Discuss Proposed Amendments to the Liquor Licensing <br />Provisions in Chapters 502 and 503 <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />Based on direction provided at the December 6, 2005 Council worksession, staff has <br />prepared an ordinance that amends the liquor licensing provisions of the City Code in <br />Chapters 502 and 503. The amendments change the code to require that a public hearing <br />be conducted for every new, transferred or renewed license. This change is recommended <br />based on feedback from residents who would have wanted to provide input during license <br />renewals however were not notified of the public hearing. The Council agreed and <br />indicated that the Code could be amended accordingly. <br /> <br />Also based on direction provided at the same December 6 worksession, the other change <br />contemplated by the proposed ordinance would be to allow our liquor license facilities to <br />offer outdoor seating in association with their establishment. The Code would need to be <br />amended to allow for the outdoor sale and consumption of alcohol in those establishments. <br />The new language states the following: <br /> <br /> Outdoor Consumption Endorsement. A special endorsement may be issued by <br />the City to the holder of a regular on-sale liquor or on-sale wine license to allow <br />sales and consumption of liquor or wine outdoors when the outside service area <br />is immediately adjacent to and contiguous with the licensed premises. The <br />licensee shall make application for the special endorsement to the City and pay <br />the annual fee for said special endorsement. The special endorsement may be <br />issued by the City Council to the licensee by resolution after a public hearing on <br />the special endorsement is held. The designated outside service area shall not <br />reduce the number of off-street parking spaces which would be required if the <br />licensed premises together with the outside service area were to be newly <br />constructed in conformity with the City’s zoning code. The City may also require <br />improvements to the outside service area prior to issuing the special <br />endorsement, including but not limited to, safety barriers or other enclosures to <br />be placed around the perimeter of the outside service area in order to protect <br />patrons from any hazards, including vehicular traffic. <br /> <br />Our City Attorney has reviewed the proposed changes and supports the ordinance as <br />presented.