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TITLE: LIQUOR LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW
PROCESS
POLICY
NUMBER: 707
ADOPTED: AMENDED OR
November 12, 1991 REVISED:
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
To streamline the process
to ensure timely staff
Department of Alcoholic
applications.
POLICY:
of liquor license application review
responses and/or protests to the
Beverage Control regarding these
The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) sends copies
of all liquor license applications to the Police Department.
The City has thirty days from the date of the ABC mailing to
provide comments to the ABC. If no protests are received within
that time period, the ABC issues the license.
The Police Department is responsible for ensuring that an
appropriate Conditional Use Permit (CUP) exists for the
applicant business. If such a CUP exists, the copy of the
application is simply filed by the Police Department in the
existing file with the notation that there were no objections to
the issuance of the license. If it is a new (in the case of an
"original" license application) or expanding business or one
seeking a license to effect a premises transfer, and no CUP
exists, the Police Department is responsible for sending a
letter to the ABC protesting the issuance of the license until
a CUP is issued by the City.
Whenever such a protest letter is sent to the ABC, that agency
notifies the applicant that they must begin the process of
obtaining a CUP with the City's Planning Department and that the
issuance of the liquor license will be delayed until such time
as the protest is withdrawn.
Once a CUP has been issued, the Planning Department notifies the
Police Department of that issuance and it is then the
responsibility of the Police Department to notify the ABC that
the protest is withdrawn.
The CUP application, approval and issuance process is such that
it provides all the checks, balances and controls necessary to
ensure that businesses seeking liquor licenses are incompliance
with local standards.
City of National City