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Consider Directing Staff to Initiate the Process of Amending Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) Section 30-12.4, Location of Liquor Stores, Similar to Council's Amendment of AMC Section 30-12.2, Location of Bars in March, 2021. (Councilmember Herrera Spencer) [Continued from March 7, 2023; public comment will be allowed]
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COUNCIL REFERRAL FORM
The Council can take any of the following actions:
1) Take no action.
2) Refer the matter to staff to schedule as a future City Council agenda item. Concurrence that staff time will be devoted to the item does not signify approval.
3) Take dispositive action only on time sensitive legislative matters if sufficiently noticed such that the public and Council have been provided sufficient information by the published agenda, and no formal published notice of a public hearing is required.
Name of Councilmember(s) requesting referral: Councilmember Herrera Spencer
Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): 2/6/2023
Council Meeting date: 2/21/2023
Brief description of the subject to be printed on the agenda, sufficient to inform the City Council and public of the nature of the referral:
On January 25, 21, Staff brought a recommendation to the Planning Board as follows:
"In December 2020, the City received a request from the West Alameda Business Association (WABA) for the Planning Board to initiate a Zoning Amendment to allow bars to be located within 1,000 feet of another bar. Approval of the amendment would allow an existing bar (The Hunter Public House) on Webster Street to move to a new location on Webster Street. WABA as well as The Fireside, an existing bar that is located within 1,000 feet of The Hunter Public House's intended new location, both support the request. In the continuing effort to support local businesses in Alameda, staff expedited the review of this request.
Currently, Alameda Municipal Code (AMC...
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