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Carmel planning commission directs staff to reconcile AW Shucks's long-running drinking-place and restaurant permits
Summary
After a staff review of decades of building permits and a 1993/1994 use permit, the commission directed staff to return with options that would keep the drinking-place entitlement with the property while allowing the current operator to hold a full-line-restaurant permit that reflects present operations.
Chair Sheryl LePage opened the Planning Commission's Oct. 8 public hearing on a director's referral about AW Shucks, a long-standing Ocean Avenue business, after staff said decades of building permits and a recent business license appear to conflict with the original Use Permit.
Anna from Community Planning & Building told commissioners that records show a drinking-place Use Permit approved in the early 1990s with conditions that limited kitchen equipment, followed by building permits in the mid-1990s and 2008 that added cooking facilities. A business license issued in 2023 listed the operation as a full-line restaurant with an ancillary drinking place, creating a legal uncertainty…
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