§ 21.50.500. Site plan review standards—Restaurant or eating place alcoholic beverage license use.

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Administrative site plan review.

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Restaurant or eating place alcoholic beverage license use standards. A restaurant or eating place licensed by the State Alcoholic Beverages Control Board to sell beer and wine for consumption only on the licensed premises is exempt from the conditional use requirements of section 21.50.160 and may be reviewed under this section, provided the principal and accessory uses are permitted non-residential uses. The standards in section 21.50.020 shall apply. Administrative review under this section shall occur before assembly approval of the restaurant or eating place license for beer and wine.

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Application. The applicant shall submit a site plan for approval by the director of planning or the director's designee. The site plan shall demonstrate that the standards in section 21.50.020 are met.

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Procedure for approval. The director or designee shall take action on the site plan within 45 days of the site plan application submission date. Within ten days of receipt of the application and at least 30 days before taking action under this section, the director or designee shall publish notice of the application in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality and invite public comment. The notice shall state the names of the applicants and the legal description of the land subject to the application. Such notice, including a map of the vicinity, shall be provided to any officially recognized community council whose boundary encompasses the petition site and to owners of property within 500 feet of the proposed site.

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Appeals. A decision of the director of community planning and development or the director's designee under this section is final unless appealed within 15 days to the assembly. An appeal may be filed by the applicant or by a petition of at least one-third of the owners of the privately owned land (excluding rights-of-way) within 500 feet of the outer boundary of the petition site. An appeal shall be considered a conditional use application for a use involving the sale of alcoholic beverages, and shall be processed in accordance with section 21.50.160.

(AO No. 2007-121(S-1), § 15, 10-23-07; AO No. 2015-57, § 1, 5-26-15 )