(A) Findings. The Council finds that certain standards should be placed on issuance of future licenses for the protection of the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the city.
(B) License standards. Each off-sale liquor licensee shall have one off-street vehicular parking space for each 200 square feet of retail service area within the proposed off-sale liquor establishment with ten parking spaces as the minimum required. No off-sale licensee shall be permitted to locate his or her off-sale liquor establishment within the same premises as occupied by an on-sale licensee unless the licensee has been issued a combination license by the city.
(C) Present licenses. When an on-sale liquor license on premises licensed on the effective date of this division is allowed to expire, either:
(1) Without a successor in interest to a licensed premises having duly and timely filed (prior to the expiration) an application for a license describing the premises; or
(2) Without the then-present licensee having duly and timely (as provided in the city code) filed an application for a renewal license, then, any subsequent application for an on-sale liquor license on the same premises shall be an application for an initial license subject to division (D) below of this section.
(D) Future licenses; standards. After the effective date of this division, no initial licenses shall be issued for the on-sale of liquor unless the following standards are met and thereafter continuously and strictly observed.
(1) The premises, proposed to be licensed and the operation thereof, are a restaurant as defined in § 111.001.
(2) The premises must comply with all provisions of the city code, including, but not limited to, all building and zoning provisions.
(3) The licensed restaurant shall serve food on all days when on-sale liquor is sold/served. The licensed restaurant must also be licensed as a medium establishment or large food and beverage establishment by the Minnesota Department of Health or Minnesota Department of Agriculture with oversight and control of the licensee restaurant.
(4) The licensee shall provide kitchen facilities separated from the dining facilities; the kitchen shall be equipped with refrigeration, food preparation and dishwashing facilities capable of performing all services on the licensed premises.
(5) Failure on the part of any licensee to whom this division applies, to continuously and strictly comply with these standards during the term of any initial or renewal license on the same premises shall be grounds for revocation.
(Prior Code, § 5.45) (Ord. 64, effective 1-3-1986; Ord. 101, effective 5-19-1989; Ord. 144, effective 1-14-1994; Ord. 197, effective 12-4-1998; Ord. 282, passed 6-5-2008; Ord. 301, passed 1-5-2010; Ord. 338, passed 7-1-2014; Ord. 352, passed 5-2-2017; Ord. 360, passed 4-17-2018)