DEPARTMENT: Development Services
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Michael Shannon
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Council District 3
SUBJECT:
Alcohol Variance Case AV2019008
SUMMARY:
Consideration of a request granting a Variance to City Code Section 4-6 and waiving the requirements of the City Code and authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages for applicant, Max Woodward, for operation of a winery on Lot 1A and Lot 2A, Block 4, NCB 1994, located at 825 Fredericksburg Road for on-premise and off-premise consumption within three-hundred (300) feet of Beacon Hill Elementary School, a public education institution in the San Antonio Independent School District, in Council District 1.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code Ann. 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 welfare of the public and the equities of the situation, determines is in the best interest of the community. Pursuant to this enabling legislation, the provisions of Chapter 4, ?4-6(c) of the City Code were established by the City of San Antonio.
The TABC authorizes municipalities to establish variance criteria from the distance requirements and ?4-6(c) of San Antonio's City Code states that with City Council authorization, the sale of alcoholic beverages at a location within three hundred (300) feet of a school may be granted, provided that the City Council makes the following findings:
1) The sale of alcoholic beverages had been permitted within the last two (2) years at the location in question;
There has not been on...
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