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PLANNING REPORT DATE: CASE NUMBER: APPLICANT: LOCATION: ACTION REQUESTED: PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: I August 1984 1523-84 Chop Stick, Inc. (Chop Stick Inn) Northeast Corner of Lexington Avenue and Dionne Street Special Use Permit to Allow Dancing in Existing Restaurant 1. The applicant proposes in a "Supplemental Statement to Application for Special Use Permit" (a short statement attached to the application) the following: "Applicant desires to expand its current restaurant facilities to its lower level space. Currently, this space is rented out to private parties and community organizations as a banquet hall. The proposed future use consists of: a. Renovating the banquet facilities to a bar with "short" food order available, and dance facility. b. The patrons to be marketed are 21 to 60 years of age with an accent on dancing to music as opposed to just listening." 2. Attached is a reduced copy of a plan of the lower level of the Chop Stick Inn, which is used for banquet purposes. They propose to allocate a 20 foot by 10 foot dance floor space. Space for public dancing and provision of live entertainment in a -restaurant is controlled by special use permit in the B-2 Zone, which zoning applies to this property. This was done in the original ordinance adopted in 1959 so as to have some control over "night club" operations versus restaurant locations. The 01' Mexico restaurant located in this complex applied for and was approved for a similar special use permit several years ago. 3. We find that the allocation of dance floor space tends to reduce the capacity for dining, and thus, tends to limit the volume of customers rather than expand it. Frequency of use, however, may expand because of the added capability. To our knowledge, approval of this special use permit would appear not to have a deleterious impact on the generL.l public.