§ 82-38.802. Purpose.

The general purposes of this article are:

(a)

To protect and promote the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, prosperity, and general welfare by requiring that alcoholic beverage sales commercial activities that are legal nonconforming activities under this chapter and considered to be deemed approved activities comply with the deemed approved performance standards at Section 82-38.808; and,

(b)

To achieve the following objectives:

(1)

Protect residential, commercial, industrial, and civic areas and minimize the adverse impacts of nonconforming and incompatible uses;

(2)

Provide opportunities for alcoholic beverage sale commercial activities to operate in a mutually beneficial relationship to each other and to other commercial and civic services;

(3)

Provide mechanisms to address problems often associated with the public consumption of alcoholic beverages, such as litter, loitering, graffiti, unruly behavior and escalated noise levels;

(4)

Prevent alcoholic beverage sales commercial activities from becoming a source of public nuisances in the community; and

(5)

Provide for properly maintained alcoholic beverage sale establishments to minimize impacts to the surrounding environment.

(Ord. 2002-33 § 2).