The ordinance streamlines the process for some restaurants to be permitted to serve alcohol — reducing the process from months to just weeks, and by thousands of dollars.
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to activate the new streamlined permitting process for restaurants to serve alcohol in areas of three City Council districts, with four more districts scheduled for a vote on Friday.
The program, which was developed over the last four years, allows eligible sit-down restaurants to serve alcohol through an administrative clearance process that would cost about $4,000 instead of $13,000 through the Conditional Use Permit process, according to the Department of City Planning. Night clubs, bars and liquor stores are not eligible for the program, and restaurants in approved locations have to meet a specific eligibility criteria before qualifying. Key eligibility requirements include:
— The restaurant must not have live music, dancing, karaoke, DJs, pool tables or outdoor TV monitors or outdoor music— The restaurant’s owners and staff must have alcohol service training— Any graffiti and litter at the restaurant must be removed. “Los Angeles, a city renowned for its food culture, is also one the most difficult cities in the country to open a restaurant.
Another alliance member, Brenda Villanueva, said in written public comment that the alliance is concerned that without community input through the Conditional Use Permit process, neighborhoods will be “overrun with alcohol licenses.”
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