The Salt Lake City Council is now considering Mayor Becker’s proposed alcohol ordinance; see news article at: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home3/54098136-200/alcohol-business-businesses-commercial.html.csp.
The proposed ordinance will allow more types of alcohol serving establishments in residential neighborhoods. Please review the information below and visit the weblinks to learn more about the proposed ordinance.
Your Wasatch Hollow Community Council needs your help in taking the pulse of our community on this ordinance. Please visit the front page of wasatchhollowcc.org to vote in our community poll and go to the community forum page to share your views.
You are also encouraged to make your opinions known via the Open City Hall website (see below) and contacting your city council representative.
Proposed Alcohol Ordinance Information Sources:
Open City Hall: http://www.slcclassic.com/opencityhall/?pd_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peakdemocracy.com%2Fportals%2F79%2Fforum_home%3Fa%3D86
- Click Zoning changes for businesses that could serve alcohol
- Click “read more”
“Where should SLC businesses that serve alcohol locate?”
- Topics:
- Introduction
- Timeline
- More information (maps)
- Definitions (list of types of alcohol serving establishments)
- Planning Department Zoning Terms
- Present locations for businesses that serve alcohol
- Conditional uses
- Proximity restrictions
Alcohol ordinance map: http://maps.slcgov.com/slcalcoholmap/alcoholmap.html
- Enter your address and pan about the map for details for Wasatch Hollow
Essential Information
- Sources: Foregoing web pages unless noted otherwise
CN Neighborhood Commercial Districts in Wasatch Hollow
- 13th and 17th
- 15th and 15th
Types of alcohol serving establishments that will be allowed in CN districts
- Dining Club 2,500 square feet or less: a conditional use
“Dining Club: A business establishment that maintains at least 50 percent of its total sales . . . from food, but also serves alcoholic beverages including, but not limited to: beer, heavy beer, wine, or liquor as defined by code for on premise consumption. The consumption of food is not required for the purchase or consumption of alcohol.”
. . . some examples of this are Legend’s Sports bar, Market Street Oyster Bar, and Fiddler’s Elbow.” (Source: Excerpt from January 27, 2010 meeting minutes of Salt Lake City Planning Division)
“Conditional Uses
“One proposed change may bear repeating. Dining clubs of 2,500 square feet or less would be allowed as conditional uses in CN (Neighborhood Commercial) and RB (Residential Business) districts. Under current ordinances, only restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages are allowed in CN districts. They are allowed as permitted uses. Under current ordinances, Residential Business districts do not allow even restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages either as permitted or conditional uses.
“Under the proposed ordinance, no more than one dining club would be allowed within 600 feet of another business that served alcoholic beverages in Residential Business or Neighborhood Commercial districts.
“In addition, the proposed ordinance would require businesses seeking a conditional use permit to open a dining club in a Residential Business or a Neighborhood Commercial district to file a security and operations plan with the petition for a conditional use permit. The security and operations plan already is a requirement for businesses in Mixed Use and Residential Mixed Use districts.
“The plan shall include:
- A complaint-response community relations program, consisting of having a representative of the business meet with neighbors upon request to attempt to resolve any neighborhood complaints regarding the operations on the premises
- Design and construction requirements to ensure that any sound level originating within the premises, measured within fifteen feet (15) feet from and exterior wall or door thereof, does not exceed the maximum permissible sound level set forth for residential use districts in Section 9.28.060 of Salt Lake City code;
- Allowing live entertainment only within an enclosed building subject to the foregoing sound limit
- Prohibiting electronically amplified sound in any exterior portion of the premises
- Designating a location for smoking tobacco outdoors in conformance with state law
- Having trash strewn on the premises, including any smoking and parking lot areas, be collected and deposited in a trash receptacle by 6 a.m. the following day
- Having portable trash receptacles on the premises emptied daily and automated receptacles emptied at least weekly. Automated receptacles shall be located only within a City-approved trash storage area.
- Review the site plan and floor plan proposed for the premises, and as result of such review may require design features intended to reduce alcohol-related problems such as consumption by minors, driving under the influence, and public drunkenness
- Require buffering where a business abuts a residential building or area, including landscaping or walls along any property line or within any required yard area on the lot where the premises are located
- Require that landscaping be located, and be of a type, that cannot be used as a hiding place
- Require that the exterior of the premises be maintained free of graffiti at all times, including the main building, any accessory building or structure, and all signs.
“In addition, if necessary to meet standards for approval of a conditional use permit set forth in the zoning ordinance the following conditions might be imposed:
- Limit the size and kind of signage located on the outside of any building containing the business
- Require parking area lighting to produce a minimum foot-candle that provides safe lighting for pedestrians but does not intrude on residents’ enjoyment of their homes
- Consider the proposed location of an outdoor smoking area in the security and operations plan and the potential effect on neighboring residences, businesses and buildings and designating a new area if the potential effects of the area in the security and operations plan appear to adversely affect neighboring residences, businesses and buildings.”
(Source: Open City Hall website, downloaded May 14, 2012)
Executive Board
Wasatch Hollow Community Council
