2006-15 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 52 - ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR

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, ORDINANCE NO. 2006-15 ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 52 -ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR- BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. That Section 4 of Chapter 52 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois, be, and the same is hereby, modified and amended by adding a new Class L to the license classi- fications, to be inserted immediately following Class K, and to provide as follows: Class L, under which the licensed premises may only be a retail store of not more than 2,500 square feet and in which the licensee has invested therein not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) (which may include the capitalized value of the first five (5) years only of a leasehold interest) as reasonably deter- mined by the Local Liquor Control Commissioner using generally recognized ac- counting practices, which said Class L license shall not be issued for any premises located within two hundred (200) feet of any church, school, park or subsidized disabled adult and elderly multi-story housing facility. Said licensed premises must be located in the B-4 Central Business District of downtown Decatur. A Class L license shall authorize beer and wine only to be sold in packages for con- sumption off of the licensed premises between the hours of 10:00 A.M. And 10:00 P.M. No drive through, walk-up or drive-up liquor sales shall be permitted on the premises. A Class L license shall be personal to the licensee and exclu- sively limited to the premises and shall not be used for any premises situated in any Residence, Office, Park Mobile Home or Neighborhood Shopping District es- tablished by the Zoning Ordinance. Issuance of this Class shall be limited to three (3). Section 2. That Sections 10 and 17 of said Chapter 52 be, and the same is hereby modi- fied and amended so that said Sections 10 and 17, as modified and amended shall provide as fol- lows: Section 10. NUMBER OF LICENSES. The issuance of a maximum number of Class A licenses combined with Class B licenses is limited to 95. There shall be no maximum for the issuance of the respective Class C, Class D,