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Planning staff proposes simpler restaurant definitions; commission asks for more outreach and continues item to Aug. 4
Summary
Planning Department and Supervisor Mercurini’s office presented an ordinance to consolidate restaurant definitions from roughly 13 categories into three (restaurant, restaurant limited, bar) and remove the video‑store category. The commission heard wide public comment on neighborhood effects, alcohol licensing, saturation caps, and operator conduct and continued the item for more community input to Aug. 4.
Planning Department staff and Supervisor Mercurini’s office presented proposed legislation May 26 to rewrite and simplify the city’s restaurant and eating‑and‑drinking use definitions, aiming to reduce the current patchwork of use categories and make rules clearer for small businesses.
Staff said the current code contains about 13 distinct line‑item definitions for eating and drinking uses that were developed for different concerns in the 1980s and no longer fit the modern marketplace. The proposal would consolidate categories into three new definitions — restaurant, restaurant limited and…
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