A hearing during Monday night's city council meeting for an application to grant the 1st Avenue Tavern a liquor primary licence.
Owner Bernie Schneider currently holds a food primary licence for the 50-seat venue, located next door to the Alibis show lounge in the National Hotel, which means food must be served with drinks.
In a letter to the city, Schneider says the intent is to provide liquor service, full-menu food service, pool, televised sports, cable music channels and, from time to time, live music.
"It is my intent to offer a clean, safe environment for customers," he says. "A place to come for a good meal,have a reasonably priced drink, play some pool, socialize and have a great time."
City staff is recommending council support approval of the application by the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch.
Hearings start at 7 p.m.
Also on the agenda:
- A homeowner is seeking council's permission to further increase the size of a shop building he wants to construct on his property but is running into opposition from staff.
In November, council approved a variance to increase the floor space for the building at 7731 Sabyam Rd. from 90 square metres - the maximum allowed under the zone for the property - to 207 square metres and to increase the height from six to seven metres.
Now the owner, Glayne Guild, is back seeking a further increase to 265 square metres in the floor space and to bring the height up to eight metres.
Staff is recommending council deny the request, noting a previously treed area on the property has been cleared, eliminating a natural buffer between adjacent properties and contending the structure will surpass the existing scale, form and character of the neighbourhood and is not considered incidental to the principal use - single detached housing.
As well, staff says the proposed 225 square-metre accessory building will increase the site coverage to about 11 per cent. The subject property is permitted up to 30 per cent site coverage and the increased height may have negative impacts such as shadowing on adjacent lots.
Three neighbours have sent letters to council in support of the increase.
A hearing on the matter will start at 7 p.m.
- Public hearings will also be held for two road closures:
One is related to a proposal to sell 817 square metres of city-owned land at the west end of Gannett Road and Logan Crescent, and southwest of the intersection of Tyner and Ospika Boulevard to Mile Land Corp. for $1 million to allow for development of a subdivision in the area.
The other is to close a 113 square-metre strip of land at the end of Gogolin Road and sell it to the adjacent property owner for $8,000.
- A representative of Fortis BC will attend the meeting to provide an update on the company's initiatives and projects in the city and surrounding region.
