LAW ALTERED TO REIN IN ALCOHOL STORES TO BE MOVED FARTHER AWAY.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - Liquor stores, bars and convenience stores The following is a list of convenience stores organized by geographical location. Stores are grouped by the lowest heading that contains all locales in which the brands have significant presence. will be kept at least 1,000 feet apart, and city officials will get more power over alcohol retailers that cause nuisances, under a revised city law. In a 5-0 vote Monday night, the council gave tentative approval to revisions to the city's 11-year-old alcohol ordinance after making minor changes to what was recommended in April by the Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle , Mayor Jim Ledford said. ``It gives us a little more control as a community over nuisance alcohol distribution,'' the mayor said Tuesday. The new restrictions will require a special permit for new supermarkets, restaurants and other businesses that sell alcohol, which city officials said will let them crack down on businesses that cause trouble or whose patrons do. The City Council must take a second vote, expected to come in July, to make the new rules take effect. Alcohol-control advocates and the community groups Pueblo Y Salud and the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs Coalition have been pushing for tightening city regulations on businesses that sell alcohol. No one spoke Monday night against the new rules. ``It will cover all the retail outlets retail outlet n → punto de venta retail outlet n → point m de vente retail outlet retail n → in the city eventually, including those that would be grandfathered in grandfathered in adj. refers to continued use of property as it was when restrictions or zoning ordinances were adopted. . It would serve as an excellent example for Lancaster to emulate,'' said Ray Chavira, a former Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Commission on Alcoholism member. The Greater Antelope Valley Association of Realtors endorsed the proposed new rules. Activists point to Los Angeles County Department of Health Services The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) in Los Angeles County's department providing public and personal health services to the over 10 million residents in the County. statistics calling alcohol dependence the No. 1 cause of shortened lives in the Antelope Valley and showing that injury traffic crashes involving alcohol between 2000 and 2003 increased two to three times as fast as population growth. Close to 80 percent of local high school juniors say it is easy or very easy to get alcohol, county statistics show. The new rules will keep bars, liquor stores and convenience markets or gas stations that sell alcohol at least 1,000 feet apart, double the present minimum separation. They must be at least 500 feet from homes, up from the present 300. Liquor stores, convenience markets and gas stations selling alcohol would also have to be at least 1,000 feet from schools and day-care centers day-care center: see day nursery. , also double the present distance. No minimum distances would be imposed between supermarkets, drug stores and restaurants that sell alcohol, but those kinds of businesses before they open would be required to obtain conditional use permits. Conditional use permits require public hearings and could add restrictions on business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a , employee training and other areas. The changes also tighten the city's controls over restaurants that on evenings or weekends become nightclubs and banquet halls that serve alcohol. Existing businesses that sell alcohol could be ordered to get the permits if they halt operations or markedly change them, or if they or their patrons become nuisances, city officials said. Charles F. Bostwick, (661) 267-5742 chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com |
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