2024-125 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 52 - Alcoholic Liquor

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ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS CHAPTER 52 -ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR— 4. LICENSE CLASSIFICATIONS. Classes of local liquor licenses are hereby established and are hereby authorized as follows:... ...Class G, under which the licensed premises may only be a restaurant in which the licensee has invested therein after May 10, 1985 not less than $250,000.00 (which may include the capitalized value of the first five years only of a leasehold interest) as reasonably determined by the Local Liquor Control Commissioner using general recognized accounting practices,which said Class G license shall not be issued for any premises situated in any Residence, Office, or Park Mobile Home established by the Zoning Ordinance unless the licensed premises are a club house connected with a golf course. A Class G Restaurant shall be defined as any public place kept,used,maintained, advertised and held out to the public primarily as a place where meals are served and where meals are actually prepared and served without sleeping accommodations, such space being provided with adequate and sanitary kitchen which shall include, but not limited to, sink; refrigerator with the minimum capacity of 20 cubic feet; and oven with the minimum capacity of 4.3 cubic feet or a range or a grill; and dining equipment and capacity and having employed therein a sufficient number and kind of employees to prepare, cook and serve suitable food for its guests, where the sale or consumption of alcoholic liquor is only incidental to the serving of meals and where 50% or more of the gross revenue of the business must be from the serving of meals. A restaurant must serve at least four (4) full entree style meals available to be ordered from and/or served at the customer's table. The mere availability and service at any premises of cold or hot sandwiches, pre-cooked frozen meals that are reheated, hors d'oeuvres, popcorn, nachos, pretzels, potato chips, hot dogs, candy, or other snack foods will not, standing alone, be deemed sufficient to constitute such premises as a restaurant within the meaning of this Chapter. Class G Restaurants may not share interior access to another business, may not share the same utilities, and said premises shall have a seating capacity for the service of meals at tables and/or counters for not less than twenty-five (25) patrons at the same time. Alcoholic liquor may be dispensed and sold no later than one (1) hour after meal service has ended.... ...Class I,under which the licensed premises may only be a restaurant at which alcoholic liquor may be sold by the drink or pitcher only, for consumption on the premises and only at tables and incidental to the service of meals. A Class I licensee shall not be permitted to operate on the licensed premises a bar or lounge area at which alcoholic liquors alone may be purchased, which said Class I license shall not be issued for any premises situated in any Residence, Office or Park Mobile Home or Neighborhood Shopping District as established by the Zoning Ordinance unless the licensed premises are a club house connected with a golf course or a restaurant establishment as an approved Historic Neighborhood Use. A Class I Restaurant shall be defined as any public place kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public primarily as a place where meals are served and where meals are actually prepared and served