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Council grants liquor-license application for Save On relocation after neighborhood hearings
Summary
After residents urged denial over proximity to schools and churches, the council granted a public convenience and necessity application related to a Save On drugstore relocation; council staff said the move is not a net increase in alcohol outlets and a petition and community meetings supported the relocation.
The Los Angeles City Council granted a public convenience and necessity application tied to a Save On/Albertson relocation after hearing competing neighborhood testimony.
Resident Manuel Cruz opposed sale of alcoholic beverages at the proposed location, saying the site is near a daycare, a Lutheran church and a school and that the neighborhood already exceeded its licensed allowance. Cruz said adding the store would increase loitering, vandalism and graffiti. He urged the council to deny the application and to ask the state Alcoholic Beverage Control agency to refuse a license.
Property owner Mark Leven and Paulette Dwire, representing the applicant, said the site at Sepulveda and Lassen is a relocation of an existing store and that neighbors who attended community meetings were generally supportive. Leven said the previous tenant’s lease expired and the owner sought to fill the vacancy; Dwire said the applicant does not sell single cans or operate video games and that the store self-patrols to prevent loitering.
Council staff in Council District 2 confirmed the proposal is a relocation of an existing Save On from Sepulveda and Devonshire to Sepulveda and Lassen and therefore not a net new outlet. Councilmember Mitzakowski (as recorded) noted that the applicant had followed the conditional-use process and that a petition with roughly 80 signatures supported the move.
Councilmember Weiss moved to grant the application; the clerk recorded the roll and the item passed. The clerk recorded the vote and the item was adopted on the council floor.
