(1) General. No license shall be issued for any place of any business ineligible for a license under state law.
(2) Delinquent taxes and charges. No license shall be granted for operation on any premises for which taxes, assessments or other financial claims of the city are delinquent and unpaid.
(3) Distance from school or church. No license shall be granted within 1,000 feet of any school or within 1,000 feet of any church. The distance shall be measured from the main entrance of the school or church to the main entrance of the applicant's place of business.
(a) For the purposes of the separation restriction in this division, a school is a building that is principally used as a place where 25 or more persons receive a full course of educational instruction and the educational instruction is provided on a daily basis by an established school board or church. This does not include any post-secondary or post-high school educational building, including any college or any vocational-technical college. Nor does the separation apply to a daycare or early childhood facility, where children typically are under constant supervision while at the facility and when traveling to and from the facility.
(b) The establishment of a school or church within the separation distance after an original liquor license application has been granted shall not, in and of itself, render the premises ineligible for renewal of the license.
(c) This separation distance restriction shall not be applicable if a school or church is located in a limited business or general business zoning district.
(Prior Code, § 701.07) (Am. Ord. 13-99, passed 6-14-1999; Am. Ord. 04-09, passed 8-10-2009)