Effective September 1, 2014, all property within the corporate limits of the City as to which the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor has been previously permitted by local referendum or by petition and all other property within the corporate limits of the City zoned or hereafter zoned Class B-1, Primary Business District; Class B-2, Secondary Business District; Class B-3, Interchange Business District; Class B-PL, Planned Business District; or Class IPCA-PUD, Industrial Park Conservation Area, including territory hereafter annexed to the City of Mt. Vernon, shall be property upon which the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor shall be permitted. However, as to such property as to which sale at retail of alcoholic liquor is permitted only by reason of the zoning classification, the sale of alcoholic liquor at retail shall not be permitted upon such property upon the property being rezoned to a zoning classification not listed above, nor shall the sale of alcoholic liquor at retail be permitted as a nonconforming use upon such property after such rezoning. All property upon which the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor is permitted shall be subject to all provisions of this chapter of the Revised Code of Ordinances, including without limitation, the requirement that a license be obtained under § 111.03 herein.
(Prior Code, Art. 6, § 6.23)