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Planning Commission approves Sushi Kio restaurant CUP with extended hours, removes happy-hour signage restriction

5350024 · July 10, 2025
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Summary

The Monrovia Planning Commission approved a conditional use permit for Sushi Kio at Foothill Park Plaza, allowing indoor sale and service of beer and wine under a Type 41 license, amended to extend hours to 11 a.m.–midnight and to remove a condition restricting happy-hour advertising.

The Monrovia Planning Commission on a unanimous roll call approved a conditional use permit (CUP 2025-0005) allowing incidental sale and on-site service of beer and wine for Sushi Kio, a new restaurant proposed at 131–141 South Myrtle Avenue in the Foothill Park Plaza (the Vons shopping center).

Staff planner Austin Arnold told commissioners, “Tonight before you, we do have a conditional use permit, to allow incidental sale and on-site service of beer and wine for a new restaurant, Sushi Kio,” and described the site and applicable code. The site is in the Neighborhood Commercial zone and is within 500 feet of Library Park, the community recreation center and the International Full Gospel Fellowship Church, which triggers the CUP requirement in the municipal code.

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