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Planning commission approves Everbar taproom CUP; grants midnight hours on event nights

3424209 · May 20, 2025
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The commission approved a conditional use permit for Everbar/Creative Creature at 172 East Main Street and amended the permit to allow midnight closing on event nights; staff said the project implements a recently amended downtown master plan authorization for additional on‑sale outlets.

The El Cajon Planning Commission unanimously approved a conditional use permit authorizing on‑site sale and consumption of beer and wine at Everbar (Creative Creature) at 172 East Main Street and added an amendment allowing the establishment to remain open to midnight on event nights.

Senior Planner Mike Filion told commissioners the proposal requests a Type 23 small beer manufacturer license for on‑site consumption and off‑sale of produced product. The site is in the downtown master plan area (Specific Plan No. 182). Filion said the January amendment to the downtown master plan authorized two additional on‑sale alcohol outlets by conditional use permit; this application would use the first available authorization.

Filion described the taproom as roughly 770 square feet…

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