Dear Interested Parties,
On May 10, 2022, the City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee approved seven proposed Resolutions relative to activating the provisions of the Restaurant Beverage Program (RBP) Ordinance (No. 187,402).
As such, on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, the full City Council will consider three of the seven proposed Resolutions (Council Districts 2, 4, and 15). You can find each resolution, along with its attached maps and findings for each resolution in the agenda for this meeting. The remaining four resolutions will be considered at a later date.
On February 9, 2022, the City Council voted unanimously to adopt the RBP Ordinance, which creates two versions of the RBP, a general and an Alcohol Sensitive Use Zone (ASUZ) version, for sit-down restaurants to serve alcohol if they meet more than 50 eligibility criteria, performance standards, and enforcement procedures. The ASUZ version contains additional standards, including a one-year provisional period with a complaint portal review. The RBP Ordinance became effective on March 31, 2022, and is available here.
To participate in either version, a qualifying restaurant must be located in a neighborhood that has been identified as eligible by the City Council. The RBP Ordinance requires the City Council to designate specific geographic areas by City Council Resolution in order to activate either the general or sensitive use provisions of this ordinance.
The City Council meeting will begin at 10 a.m. and be conducted by teleconference. Agendas for City Council and Committee meetings can be found online at https://clerk.lacity.org/
For more information regarding the RBP Ordinance, please visit the Council File No. 17-0981. If you have any questions, please contact Roberto Luna at roberto.luna@lacity.org and reference Ordinance No. 187,402 and Case No. CPC-2018-4660-CA.
Thank you for your continued interest in the RBP.
Sincerely,
Los Angeles City Planning
