[Vision2020] Now, here's something to look forward to . . .

[Tom Hansen]

Friday nights at Perch's . . . on the UI campus . . . drunk, armed students . . . comparing the sizes of their . . . guns.

Courtesy of the Moscow Administrative Committee agenda for September 12, 2016 at:

http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/records/Agendas/Admin%2009-12-16.pdf

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4. Perch Request for Letter from Council Allowing Beer and Wine License Within 300 Feet of A School or Church Per Idaho Code 23-913 - Gary J. Riedner
Idaho Code § 23-1011B and 23-1307A, prohibits any business from selling beer and/or wine for on- premises consumption within three hundred feet (300') of any church, school or any other place or worship, unless the City Council approves a waiver of the requirement.

The Perch is an establishment located at 509 University Avenue within the University of Idaho campus and within three hundred feet (300') of the LDS Institute site located at 902 S. Deakin Street, as well as the Campus Christian Center located at 822 Elm Street. The Perch is currently licensed to sell packaged beer and wine for off-premises consumption only.

On July 21, 2014, Paramjit Singh, operator of the Perch, requested the City Council to waive the 300 foot minimum distance requirement in order to sell beer and wine for on-premises consumption. The Perch is located in a Neighborhood Business Zoning District under Moscow City Code § 4-4-3. Restaurants are permitted in the NB zone, while bars are prohibited. At that time the applicant represented that the establishment was being remodeled to operate as a restaurant. The City Council declined to waive the 300 foot minimum requirement and indicated that if the Perch established itself as a restaurant, the applicant could petition to come before City Council and again request a waiver.

On March 9, 2015 and April 13, 2015, Mr. Singh again appeared before the Administrative Committee of the City Council requesting a waiver of the 300 foot minimum in order to sell beer and wine for on- premises consumption. At the April Committee meeting, Councilors were not inclined to provide the waiver but noted they would be willing to hear the matter again in a year's time.

On May 26, 2016 Farrukh Naz, the current operator of the Perch, again requested that the City Council waive the 300 foot minimum.

State of Idaho Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) requires the applicant to gain City Council approval to waive the 300 foot minimum distance requirement prior to issuance of a license permitting on- premises consumption by the state.

ACTION: Consider the Perch's request and recommend that City Council reconsider its decision to decline a waiver of the 300 foot minimum distance requirement or decline the Perch's request for reconsideration.

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Perch Request for Letter from Council Allowing Beer and Wine License within 300 feet of a School or Church per Idaho Code 23-913 (July 21, 2014)
http://www.moscowcares.com/072114_05_PerchReqBeerWineLic300ft.htm

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still.
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
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