5.04.170 - Alcoholic beverage license/consent waiting list.

The City shall not issue a City alcoholic beverage license, if doing so would cause the City to exceed the allowable number of licenses that the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control permits the City to issue for any particular category of business, or when doing so would cause the City to exceed any locally established quota. When the available number of licenses or consents is exhausted for a particular category of business, the City shall maintain a waiting list for applicable City alcoholic beverage license types. To be placed on the waiting list, an applicant shall complete an application for the type of license sought. The Applicant shall then be placed on the waiting list in chronological order based upon the date and time of application completion. When a license becomes available for the category of business for which the application was made, the City shall notify the applicant. Thereafter, the Applicant shall have one hundred twenty (120) days to take all steps necessary to obtain approval of its application from the City. An applicant on the waiting list may remove its name from the waiting list at any time but forfeits the nonrefundable application fee by removing its name. An applicant on the waiting list shall renew its application annually no later than 5 p.m. on the last City business day before the anniversary of the original application. Failure to pay the annual application fee on time will result in the applicant being returned to the bottom of the waiting list.

(Ord. No. 2020-02, § II(Exh. A), 1-8-2020)