| | MANAGER'S REPORT:
Your packet contains the following two applications for new Restaurant/Eating Place liquor licenses and applications for Restaurant Designation Permits:
Joan Deering d/b/a Paradise Café & Bakery located at 9351 Glacier Hwy., Juneau
Timberwolf Ventures, Inc. d/b/a Lunchbox located at 495 South Franklin Street, Juneau
Alaska Statutes 04.11.400 imposes population limitations on the number of the various types of liquor licenses per community. Juneau's net population currently allows for 22 Restaurant/Eating Place licenses. We presently have 21 licensed premises with Restaurant/Eating Place licenses, meaning these two applicants are competing for the last allowable restaurant/eating place license.
CBJ Code Section 20.25.025 sets out the criteria for Assembly review of license issuance, renewal, transfer, relocation, or continued operation of liquor licenses and the grounds under which a license may be protested, and CBJ staff has recommended the Assembly waive its right to protest either application, however the code is silent on the process by which a local preference for competing applications are to be considered.
State regulations provide that where there are competing petitions, the ABC Board will consider a number of factors, including the “preferences or priorities expressed by the local governing body.”
Both applicants were sent the letter and attachments found in your Assembly packets as notice of these proceedings. | |