Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and modify the conditions to the existing Entertainment Permit without dancing issued to Lona Marie Lee, dba Lona’s City Limits Cantina, at 1174 East Wardlow Road.  (District 7)
Thank you. Next up is hearing item. 12. The second hearing of the day. Report from financial management. Recommendation to receive. Important documentation. For the record concluded a public hearing and modify the conditions to the existing entertainment permit without dancing or to honor severely limits. Cantina at 1174 East Furlough Road District seven. And this item does require No. Okay. Thank you. Can we please go ahead and. Do the oath and then also the presentation. Believe a. Please stand for those of you who are going to testify on the item. To you and each of you do solemnly swear that the testimony you may give in the course now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. Sandy Palmer will provide the staff presentation for this public hearing for financial management. Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the city council. Tonight you have before you an amendment of conditions to the existing entertainment without dancing permit for Lorna Marie Lee doing business as Lana City Limits Cantina located at 1174 East Wardlow Road operating as a restaurant with with alcohol in Council District seven. All entertainment permits are subject to a two year department review process. And during the most recent review of the permit for L.A. City Limits Cantina, some concerns were identified to remedy these concerns and to bring the entertainment conditions up to date with what is normally proposed for entertainment premises today. Staff is recommending the approval of the amended conditions as contained in the hearing packet, as well as the police department stand ready to answer any questions council may have. And that concludes staff's report. Thank you. Councilmember Urunga. Thank you and thank you for the report. I think that the review that the police department did on this establishment is very thorough, and I think the owner has agreed to all the conditions are put there, especially in addition to the special conditions that were included there as well. So I ask for my colleagues to please support the motion. All right. Is there any public comment on number 12? There's two members of the public, John Mayer and Miss al-Qaeda. Good evening, members of the City Council. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is John Myer and I'm here representing my sister in law, Eugenia Sanchez, who lives at 3320 Cerritos Avenue, which is adjacent to the back of the of the bar. We originally, in response to the public notice, we originally sent in a letter that outlined. Some of the. Disorderly activities that we associate with the establishment. And we had recommended or requested that we that you not move forward in granting this entertainment permit. Since then, we have read the staff report and the conditions of approval. We've also had an opportunity to speak with members of the District seven field office and members of the business license staff, and they were very helpful, very responsive. We certainly applaud the action of the police department and the city staff in listening to the community and responding with the additional conditions of approval. We support and recognize that they have added conditions that deal with some of the issues in regards to when the trash is being taken out , the hours of the entertainment, as well as what's going on outside of the establishment. Therefore, with the. Additional conditions. Of approval, we think we're better off than not having the entertainment permit at all. We are not confident that, based on past and current practices, that the ownership of this establishment will be able to comply with these even since the 30 day ABC. Action. Nothing really has changed. One of the key components of our concern is how the primary business is defined. You heard tonight it's defined as a restaurant, and somewhere in the last 20 years it has shifted from a restaurant to a bar. In looking at the city zoning ordinance, if the city were to define it as what it is a bar, we don't believe there would be any grandfathering allowed and they would have to go through a conditional use permit. The reason we have conditional use permit is so that you can see how a specific operation is being done at a specific location. If this establishment was in a commercial center or a community center, it may not have any problems. But it's currently located the crossroads of a small neighborhood. Commercial center surrounded. By a residential neighborhood. So I don't know what the appropriate action is to have that primary business definition looked at, but it certainly needs to be done. That concludes my presentation and happy to answer any questions. All right. Thank you. Our next speaker, please. Good evening. I am a resident. I lived south of the previous person who just spoke hour a month. I live on Cerritos. Our families have endured urination in my garden. People being drunk, vomiting all over the place. Feces, sex in the vehicle in front of my house, up and down the street. People, women being plummeted. You can hear the woman, you hear the socks, the blows going into her body and she's screaming and everyone calling the police, even Roxanne's across the street. We get all of their people parking into the street, blocking the driveway, blocking acting silly. So now am I. It's not that I don't want her to have a business there. I hear the hamburgers are good. My problem is all the rest of it. Our families keep our block clean. We go out and we sweep. And we're not happy to have to pick up condoms. I don't want to have to pick up small alcoholic bottles in the front yard because people are drinking before they get to the bar. So they don't have so much money before by the time they get there. They all really want to be drunk and. I mean, we actually live in a nice neighborhood, but the riff raff comes in from the bars and we, the people on all the neighbors have to come out and sweep and clean and call the police immediately so someone's not killed. I'm in the neighborhood. And we don't want to go through this. We sometimes the ballerinas are coming out. We have tiny children walking up and down and they have their little shows. And then you have the mixture, the flip of the bars at night. It's too much. It really is. I'm tired of being worried about. I'm drunk. It's going up and down my street. I really am. And I've raised children and the neighbors are raising children. And. Singing and dancing and all of this other entertainment stuff prolongs their ability to cause this course. Thank you. Thank you, Councilor MacGregor. Thank you. I want to thank the two speakers who came up today to share their thoughts. STAFF Do we have. I hope conditions in place that addressed some of the concerns that were raised right now. Council member. The new conditions that are recommended, they do include conditions that would, we believe, go a long way towards addressing those concerns. And upon review by both the the Department of. Police and Financial Management, we. Believe this is a good step towards addressing the totality of the concerns that have been raised by the residents. The reasons that we believe that to be the case is this was previously an existing entertainment permit. We're not bringing anything new forward tonight except for additional conditions on activities already existing. And these conditions, because the permit was issued a number of years ago, were not present before. PD has met with the business and spoken with them about the new conditions, believes that they have been very receptive and responsive to those for going forward. And so and these are now in line with what standards that we have learned over a number of years of what we think is appropriate for entertainment permits. And given the two year review had these concerns, this is a good time for us to apply those and then be able to ascertain that the business is able to operate appropriately within them. Thank you. Thank you. There is a motion and a second on on this hearing. So younger. I think we've had the motions been written to the record and if there's no other council comment, we will go ahead and cast our votes. Motion carries. I think you were doing. Before we do the next item, I just wanted to note that item 26 has been pulled from the agenda. That's item 26. Next up, we are going to take item 14.