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Planning commission denies request to upgrade Shell convenience store liquor license at 8990 Bolsa Avenue
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to deny a conditional use permit and the city’s public convenience or necessity finding for an upgrade from an ABC Type 20 (beer and wine) license to Type 21 (full off-sale) at the Shell station convenience store at 8990 Bolsa Avenue.
The Westminster Planning Commission on April 2 denied a conditional use permit to upgrade a convenience store’s alcohol license from a beer-and-wine off-sale license (ABC Type 20) to a general off-sale license (ABC Type 21) at 8990 Bolsa Avenue, a convenience market attached to a Shell gas station.
Staff described the proposal as a conversion from a Type 20 to a Type 21 to allow sale of distilled spirits and certain ready-to-drink products that use distilled spirits as the base. Ken Vichtelman, principal planner, said the change requires a new CUP and a local public convenience or necessity (PCN) determination from the city because the census tract is oversaturated under…
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