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<br />r\PPUC,':',NT: <br /> <br />,-~::q~'$ ~jquor5 \,. 'Hi <br />,-"'paGa t, President) <br /> <br />. . <br /> <br /> <br />PLANNING REPOP" f <br /> <br />Ij~ TE: <br /> <br />11 Jui:, 1990 <br /> <br />CASE Nur...1BE.T{; <br /> <br />~ll~ <br /> <br />LO':: A TlCl'J: <br /> <br />U~'(jng,-on 'Shoppes Center, <br />:z 727 North lex; ngton (see <br />sketch;' <br /> <br />ACTJiJl'~ REQUESTED: <br /> <br />":-pprovai of Specie Use <br />Permit for a liquor Store <br /> <br />PL~ CONSlDERA TIONS: <br /> <br />1. BACKGROUND <br /> <br />This '3ppb:ation is for a;:>pro'val oT a special use permit for a liquor <br />store within the B-.'; :Jjst~icL The 8-4 District allows off-sale liquor <br />stores as permitted uses \,'Jhen Ui2Y ate located in shGpping centers as <br />defined in Sectiwn 5.585. Section 5.585 defines shopping c~nters as <br />fojjows: <br /> <br />5.58:c. ~ping Centers. <br /> <br />A group of four (4) or m;:)re cont!guous units combined in a <br />sir.gle, architecturally unified building, containing at least 40,000 <br />square feet of cGrnrnercial space, :ocated on a single site, aJong <br />with on-site parki'lg which is provided in direct relationship to the <br />types and sizes oi thE stores cont.ained within the building, <br /> <br />The 8-4 District permits off-sale liquor stores a::; special J5eS when they <br />dD not mEet the ddint~ion of Section 5.585. 1:0 other words, the code <br />requires a special lJ,~. permit for either a free-standing liquor store, o~ <br />an off-s21e liquor store within a center with less thb!1 40,000 square <br />fe~ t of space. <br /> <br />The logic behind making off-saLe IkjilOr store.s ,1ermitted IIses withi') <br />shoPPIl:g centers stem::: fro"1 the fact that all of the a~c..hitectural and <br />sitE: nlanning issues ~ypicaii) I'evie,v2d through the spetial use permit <br />~H VL.t::'''h~ 1'(..]\-: 0..1~; ":c.~.. :::::;::~. .:: ::~;:::'8~ ~~:-'.:"'~~;~"'I th:o ~~r~r""I\f:11 nf thp <br />shopping ~8n';er. When jiquor stores are free-standing, the special use <br />permit process gives the con1n:unit~, the opportunity to review such <br />fur~ctiollal ana 3esthetIc iss~:es as service and loacliilg areas, signdC;e, <br />Ughting, iandscfiring, trash hcwdJin9, ""tc. <br /> <br />frankly, many of the ars]urne'1ts In f"vor of making liquor stores <br />per~1itted uses i:l shcpping centers cOfltalniflt; 40,030 square feet or mDre <br />hc1d true in U;c case Df lr->is sn~alier centror, p~rticularly iii light of the <br />fact th3t ~his is '3 brand "EW c(~nter that has jGst recently been <br />approvl',i, Caf1sequentl), this i":a!!ninij ref,ort wiH not (<JClIS on many of <br /> <br />