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File #: RES 11-752    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
In control: City Council
Final action: 4/20/2011
Title: Memorializing the City Council's denial of a Liquor Outdoor Service Area license for Grand American Restaurant Company, d/b/a The Wild Onion.
Sponsors: Dave Thune
Related files: PH 11-7
Title
Memorializing the City Council's denial of a Liquor Outdoor Service Area license for Grand American Restaurant Company, d/b/a The Wild Onion.

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WHEREAS, Grand American Restaurant Company d/b/a The Wild Onion (License ID # 19990002357) (hereinafter "licensee") located at 788 Grand Avenue in Saint Paul submitted and application for a liquor outdoor service area license in February of 2010; and

WHEREAS, that application included a petition in support of the proposed licensed activity that was signed by 33% of the owners of private residences, dwellings or apartment houses within three-hundred (300) feet of the licensed premises; and

WHEREAS, the petition was signed by representatives of at least twenty (20) but not more than twenty-two (22) properties; and

WHEREAS, on February 3, 2010, the Department of Safety and Inspections sent a notice that they had received an application for a liquor outdoor service area license to all owners and occupants who own property or reside within three-hundred and fifty (350) feet of the licensed premises and the notice provided information on how to object to the issuance of the proposed license; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Safety and Inspections received objections to the issuance of the liquor outdoor service area license; and

WHEREAS, in response to the objections, a public hearing was held before the City's Legislative Hearing Officer at which two (2) neighbors testified in opposition to the license, and eight (8) individuals submitted letters or emails in opposition to the license; and

WHEREAS, at the Legislative Hearing, a petition in opposition to the proposed license was submitted that was signed by forty-one (41) nearby residents, of those twenty-two (22) were owners of private residences within three-hundred (300) feet of the licensed premises; and

WHEREAS, the petition in opposition has at least as many signatures of owners of private residen...

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