(A) Statutory restrictions on location. No license shall be issued for the sale at retail of any alcoholic liquor within 100 feet of any church, school other than an institution of higher learning, hospital, home for aged or indigent persons or for veterans, their spouses or children or any military or naval station, provided, that this prohibition shall not apply to hotels offering restaurant services, regularly organized clubs, or to restaurants, food shops or other places where sale of alcoholic liquors is not the principal business carried on; nor to the renewal of a license for the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor on premises within 100 feet of any church or school where the church or school has been established within such 100 feet since the issuance of the original license. In the case of a church, the distance of 100 feet shall be measured to the nearest part of any building used for worship services or educational programs and not to property boundaries.
(B) Local restrictions on location. No license shall be issued hereafter authorizing the sale of alcoholic liquor in any building located in a block where over 50% of the property, according to street frontage of the block (or the blocks of both streets if a corner lot), and a like amount of property in the block opposite such location (or in the blocks opposite if a corner lot) is, at the time of filing the application for such permits, used for residential purposes, or used in part for residential purposes and the rest is vacant property. However, by majority vote, the City Council, in its sole discretion, may waive the restrictions set forth in this division (B) and approve the issuance of a liquor license for any location that would otherwise be restricted by the terms of this division (B).
(C) Zoning. No license shall be issued to any premises unless the sale or distribution of alcoholic liquor at such premises complies with the applicable Zoning Ordinance for the city.
(‘82 Code, § 5.04.080) (Am. Ord. 1623, passed 3-25-19)