CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
Memo Date: 12/20/2024.
Agenda Date: 12/23/2024.
Prepared By: Jennifer Webster, Planner, City of Cocoa
Through: Stockton Whitten, City Manager
Requested Action:
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Provide direction to staff to prepare an ordinance to update and amend Appendix A, Art XIII, Sec. 20 - Alcoholic Beverages.d
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BACKGROUND:
Currently, Appendix A, Zoning, Article XIII, Section 20 - Alcoholic Beverages, contains certain restrictions as to the location of the on-premise sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages containing more than one percent (1%) alcohol by weight where the proposed premises is within three hundred (300) feet of an established school, church or residential zone. In addition, no church or school shall be granted a license or be permitted to begin operations where the proposed church or school is within three hundred (300) feet of an established premises which is licensed for the sale and on-premise consumption of alcoholic beverages containing more than one percent (1%) alcohol by weight. Such distances are currently measured "by a straight line from the nearest point of the building or portion of a building which is the proposed premises, to the nearest point of the building or portion of a building which is the established premises." There are currently no required minimum distances between premises selling alcoholic beverages and the building line of a school, church or residential zone when the premises is located in the CBD [district], located within a shopping center building of twenty thousand (20,000) square feet or more, or is licensed strictly for off-premise consumption, such as grocery stores, convenience stores, liquor stores, etc.
The City Council may direct staff to commence the process of amending Appendix A, Art XIII, Sec. 20 - Alcoholic Beverages, primarily to do the following:
* Add a new minimum three hundred (300) foot distance requirement between locations for off-premise consumption of alcoholic beve...
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