[Neighbors] FW: 7-11 Liquor license hearings in your neighborhood

Mon Jun 3 21:28:08 MDT 2019

 The hearing for the 7-11 store at 3801 Central NE, corner of Central & Solano, is Friday, June 7; see item #8:
NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIQUOR HEARINGNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to anyone wishing to comment on the application that the City ofAlbuquerque Liquor Hearing Officer, Steven M. Chavez, pursuant to § 60-6B-4D(1), NMSA 1978 asamended, and § 13-2-1 Revised Ordinances, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1994 as amended, will hold apublic hearing at the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Government Center, located at One Civic Plaza NW,Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the City Council Committee Room, 9th Floor, Room 9081 on Friday, June 7,2019 at 9:00a.m., for the purpose of considering the application for a liquor license set forth hereunder.NOTICE OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: If you have a disability and require specialassistance to participate in this hearing, please contact Sandra Chavez at least three days before the hearingdate at 768-3147. 
ip of Dispenser Liquor License No. 4068.    Notice of Public Liquor Hearings

 8. Liquor License/Application: 0645/1117977 Applicant: Southwest Convenience Stores, LLCDoing Business As: 7 Eleven Food Stores #57713Proposed Location: 3801 Central Avenue NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108The applicant is requesting a Transfer of Ownership of Dispenser Liquor License No. 0645. 

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   On Monday, June 3, 2019, 10:39:23 AM MDT, Davis, Pat via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:  

  Neighbors in Parkland Hills, South San Pedro and Nob Hill, 
You should have received a notice of a liquor license hearing tomorrow, 6/4 at 9am in the 9th Floor Committee Room, for your neighborhoods which involve the 7-11 stores at 3801 Central NE (Central & Aliso) and 5401 Kathryn SE (Kathryn & San Mateo).
Over the past week or so, I have been contacted by several neighborhood groups and petitions asking for the city to deny these transfers of sale.  
I fully support these efforts, however please ensure that they are directed to the city's alcohol licensure officer, c/o Mrs. Sandra Chavez, smchavez at cabq.gov instead of to the city council.
The city's liquor license decision authority is vested in an Independent Liquor Hearing Officer whose decisions are appealed to the courts, not the Council.  
Similar to our zoning rules, they city's ethics rules also prohibit me from specifically directing hearing officer or staff in this matter - but in extraordinary circumstances I can help the community organize and share my own concerns and I have chosen to do just that in these cases.
That said, I share concerns about the negative neighborhood impacts these two locations have demonstrated under 7-11 management.  The hearing officer is limited in what he can consider to deny a license transfer, and the bar is very high to do so.  Experience in these matters tells us that data demonstrating an inability for a license owner to manage the license and incompatibility with evolving neighborhood uses is the most impactful.
Therefore, I had APD, AFR and my staff compile data on calls for service at both locations and I have written and submitted a letter (attached) to the hearing officer detailing:   
   - The number of police and fire calls for service at each location
   - The disproportionate number of public resources required to respond to what I perceive is an inability or unwillingness of 7-11 to implement their own policies to prevent, theft, over-intoxication and neighborhood disturbances linked to these locations and alcohol.
Simply put, the availability of alcohol for off-premise consumption has proven to be incompatible with other uses in the neighborhood and the records demonstrate that the City is required to devote a disproportionate amount of public resources to respond to and restore the health and safety of the neighborhoods when the license holders fail, time and time again, to prevent the negative impacts of their off-premise sales from negatively impacting others.
I am making a copy of that letter and the data available to you all so that you can use it in your own advocacy and engagement around these hearings. 
You should also contact your neighborhood association president if you want to know more about your NA's stance on these requests.
In solidarity, 

Pat
Pat Davis
City Councilor

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Foran, Sean M." <seanforan at cabq.gov>
Date: Thu, May 30, 2019 at 1:27 PM -0600
Subject: re Councilor Davis' comments on 5401 Kathryn SE & 3801 Central SE 
To: "Chavez, Sandra M." <smchavez at cabq.gov>

Ms. Chavez,
Would you please pass this letter from Councilor Davis regarding the hearings on 5401 Kathryn SE & 3801 Central SE on to Hearing Officer Chavez and include it in the appropriate files. 
Thank you,
Sean Foran_______________________________________________
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