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PUBLIQ HEARINGS: ZaaLng Mayor Gonzales announced that this was the time and place fixed for public bearing to consider File Index Number DO -12-93, an amendment to Title 18 of the Colton Municipal Code (Zoning Ordinance) to require a Conditional Use Permit for the sale of beer and wine in the Multiple -Family Residential (13-3), Business Park (BP), Neighborhood Commercial (C-1), General Commercial (Cw2), Industrial Park (IP), Light Industrial (M -1)f and Heavy Industrial (M-2) zones. Mayor Gonzales declared the public hearing open. City Clerk Ramos submitted the Affidavit of Publication and reported that no protests or objections were received. Community Development Director Zamora related that the department had been directed to formulate an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance regarding the sale of beer and wine. Present practice requires a Conditional Use Permit in certain specified zones; however, with City Council approval of the proposed amendment, a Conditional Use Permit for the sale of beer and Ervine will be required clay vide. After evaluation, the Design Review Committee and the Planning Commission recommended that a Notice of Exemption be prepared. Staff and the Planning Commission recornmended approval of File Index Number DO -12-93f amending Section 18.06.060, 18,04.218, and 18.04 of the Colton Municipal Code. To City Council's request as to the process to be observed by non-profit organizations, Community Development Director Zamora responded that they would be required to go through the normal process and obtain a liquor permit through ABC Board. He stated that the Conditional Use Permit is used to control. Deputy City Attorney Biggs advised the lav provides that pre-existing legal uses can continue so long as they don't expand. If the City has a change in the lama requiring a Conditional Use Permit and there is an existing operation where the bard liquor license is being downgraded to a beer/ovine license and the business continues its operation, Deputy City Attorney Biggs advised that she would not see a need for a Conditional Use Permit since the operation is not expanding. To a hypothetical question about a business that initially had a hard liquor license which was, subsequently, down -graded to a beer/vine license and the business was sold, would the bard -liquor license reactivates Deputy City Attorney Diggs answered it would not reactivate. The Deputy City Attorney reiterated that any expansion would require a Conditional Use Permit. 0