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Committee adds safety conditions and forwards Argentum Project off‑sale beer & wine license
Summary
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee voted to forward a transfer of a Type 20 off‑sale beer and wine license for Argentum Project LLC (47 Sixth Street) to the Board with added conditions including hours limits, monitoring, cameras and lighting after staff and community offices raised public‑safety concerns.
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee voted to send a transfer of a Type 20 off‑sale beer and wine license for Argentum Project LLC, located at 47 Sixth Street, to the Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation and additional safety conditions. The committee recorded no objections to the motion to amend the Board’s recommendation.
ALU and police staff told the committee the location falls in a high‑crime, high‑saturation census tract and recommended a set of conditions designed to mitigate neighborhood impacts. Those recommendations included limiting alcohol sales to 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily; prohibiting the sale of single containers below specified sizes for certain beverages; requiring active monitoring of adjacent areas; and a 72‑hour requirement to remove graffiti on or adjacent to the premises. Staff said the applicant had agreed to the listed conditions.
Moses Corette of Supervisor Jane Kim’s office told the panel the office wanted the applicant to add visible lighting and cameras and to help with street cleaning in front of the storefront. The applicant, Vimitry, said the business had “already installed cameras, and we will provide lighting for the space” and pledged to clean the sidewalk.
Committee members asked whether the Board could require new, binding conditions on a state‑issued liquor license. Deputy City Attorney John Givner advised that the state agency (ABC) issues and enforces binding liquor‑license conditions; the Board cannot itself impose conditions that bind ABC, but it can include in its resolution the conditions it wants the state to consider. On that basis a committee member moved to add the Kim‑office conditions (lighting, cameras and street cleaning) to the Board recommendation. The amendment passed without objection, and the committee then forwarded the transfer with a positive recommendation to the Board.
Next steps: the transfer will appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda for consideration; the City’s resolution will state the committee’s requested conditions and ABC will consider them in its licensing process.
