DEPARTMENT: Development Services
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Roderick Sanchez
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Council District 1
SUBJECT:
Alcohol Variance V2014002
SUMMARY:
Consideration of a request for a waiver of the variance criteria listed in Section 4-6(c)(1), 4-6(c)(3) and 4-6(c)(4) and request for a variance in accordance with Chapter 4 ?4-6(c) of the City Code for ACCD Public Facility Corporation, Owner, to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premise consumption as a "Food Service Establishment" located on Lot 14, Block 33, NCB 376, currently addressed as 1515 North Main Avenue, within three hundred (300) feet of San Antonio College, a Community College.
Pursuant to Title 4, Chapter 109, Sub-chapter B, ?109.33(a)(1) of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code (TABC), the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited for dealers whose place of business is within three hundred (300) feet of a public or private school as measured in a direct line from the property line of the public or private school to the property line of the place of business. The City of San Antonio adopted this distance requirement in Chapter 4, Article 1, ?4-6 of the City Code. The State currently relies on local jurisdictions to enforce the distance requirements and the local regulations comply with the regulations established by TABC. The subject property is situated within three hundred (300) feet of San Antonio College, a Community College.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Title 4, Chapter 109, Subchapter B, ?109.33(e) authorizes municipalities to establish a variance process if it is determined that the enforcement of the regulation in a particular instance is not in the best interest of the public, constitutes waste or inefficient use of land or other resources, creates an undue hardship on an applicant for a license or permit, does not serve its intended purpose, is not effective or necessary, or for any other reason the city council, after consideration of the health, safety, and welfar...
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