Committee on License and Consumer Protection meeting, February 14, 2024
- When: Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 11:30 AM (Chicago time)
- Where: Room 201A, 2nd Floor, City Hall, 121 North LaSalle Street - Chicago, IL 60602
- Status: Scheduled & Published
- Committee: Committee on License and Consumer Protection
- Video: https://vimeo.com/912685698
- Transcript: full text (2,975 words, official captions)
Meeting notes
AI-written from the transcript. Speakers are inferred from cues in the recording, so treat names as estimates and check the video at the linked time.
The Committee on License and Consumer Protection had no public commenters and approved its January 2024 Rule 45 reports. It recommended passage of ordinances lifting package goods or liquor license moratoriums on portions of North Avenue, 63rd Street, Peterson and Ridge Avenues, West Lake Street and Roosevelt Road (for beer and wine sales at UIC's baseball field), along with an ordinance exempting bags provided by shoe repair and shine businesses from the paper carrier bag regulations. It also recommended ordinances restoring or adding package goods moratoriums on portions of Grand Avenue, Clark Street, Devon Avenue and a fourth street in the 49th Ward. One item was held in committee.
Topics: liquor license moratoriums, package goods licenses, bag tax exemption, shoe repair businesses, business ownership transfers
Agenda items discussed
- 4:54 Public comment
- 5:27 Rule 45 reports for January 2024: passed
- 5:51 Ordinance to disallow additional package goods licenses on a portion of Grand Avenue (O2024-0006938): passed
- 7:36 Ordinance held in committee (O2024-0007334): held
- 8:54 Ordinance to allow additional package goods license on a portion of North Avenue (O2024-0006857): passed
- 10:12 Ordinance excluding bags provided by shoe repair or shine businesses from paper carrier bag regulations: passed
- 12:36 Ordinance to allow additional alcoholic liquor licenses on a portion of Lake Street (O2024-0007112): passed
- 14:00 Ordinance to allow additional alcoholic liquor license on a portion of Roosevelt Road (O2024-0007113): passed
- 15:39 Ordinance to allow additional package goods license on a portion of 63rd Street (O2024-0007506): passed
- 17:54 Substitute ordinance to allow additional package goods license on a portion of Peterson Avenue and Ridge Avenue: passed
- 19:33 Ordinances to disallow additional package goods licenses on portions of three streets including Clark Street and Devon Avenue (O2023-0006144): passed
Alderpersons who spoke
- Daniel La Spata (alderperson): Said his ordinance removes a package goods moratorium on Grand Avenue that duplicates one lifted by the 27th Ward, and that law and the 27th Ward had no objections. (6:30)
- Emma Mitts (alderperson): Said the North Avenue ordinance would allow a long-standing business to transfer ownership. (9:21)
- Jason C. Ervin (alderperson): Said shoe repair businesses use paper bags to hold customers' own items and should be exempt from the bag tax, calling it a business-friendly change. (10:51); Said the Lake Street license lift is for an event space next to a church with limited residential impact and that the owners met with the police commander. (13:00); Said the Roosevelt Road ordinance, requested by UIC's chancellor, would allow beer and wine sales at the university's baseball field. (14:24)
- Gilbert Villegas (alderperson): Asked whether the shoe repair bag exemption would apply citywide. (11:48)
- Stephanie D. Coleman (alderperson): Said the 63rd Street business operated for 40 years and the community spent two years finding a responsible new operator after the owner died. (16:00)
- Maria E. Hadden (alderperson): Said her three ordinances reinstate package goods moratoriums she had lifted for ownership transfers or new businesses, to manage any future applications. (20:30)
Exchanges between members
- 11:48 Alderperson Gilbert Villegas asked Alderperson Jason C. Ervin whether the bag exemption is citywide, and Alderperson Jason C. Ervin said it is.
- 16:00 Alderperson Stephanie D. Coleman thanked the chair when recognized.