17-10-2: PROXIMITY EXCEPTION FOR HOTELS:

The license authority may issue a hotel license that does not meet the proximity requirements:

   A.    If the proposed hotel is:

      1.   Within six hundred (600) feet of two community locations, as measured from the nearest patron entrance of the proposed hotel by following the shortest route of ordinary pedestrian travel to the property boundary of each community location;

      2.   Not within three hundred (300) feet of a community location, as measured from the nearest patron entrance of the proposed hotel by following the shortest route of ordinary pedestrian travel to the property boundary of the community location; and

      3.   Not within two hundred (200) feet of a community location, as measured in a straight line from the nearest patron entrance of the proposed hotel to the nearest property boundary of the community location;

   B.   The proposed sublicensed premises of a bar establishment sublicense under the hotel license:

      1.   Is on the second or higher floor of a hotel;

      2.   Is not accessible at street level; and

      3.   Is only accessible to an individual who passes through another area of the hotel in which the bar establishment sublicense is located; and

   C.   The applicant meets all other criteria under this title for the hotel license. (Ord. 21-31, 8-25-2021)