Chapter 6.104 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SALE REGULATIONS
Section 6.104.020 Purpose of alcoholic beverage sale regulations.
There exists in the unincorporated portion of Alameda County
conditions associated with the
sale of alcoholic beverages by establishments that are deleterious to the public health, safety, and
general welfare, and constitute a public nuisance. The general purposes of the alcoholic beverage
sale regulations are to protect and promote the public health, safety, comfort, convenience,
prosperity, and general welfare in the unincorporated area by requiring that alcoholic beverage
sale commercial activities comply with the performance standards of Section 6.104.060 of this
chapter and to achieve the following objectives:
A. To protect residential, commercial,
industrial, and civic areas and minimize the adverse
impacts of activities that are deleterious to the public health, safety and general welfare;
B. To provide opportunities for alcoholic
beverage sale commercial activities to operate in a
mutually beneficial relationship to each other and to other commercial and civic services;
C. To provide mechanisms to address
problems often associated with the public
consumption of alcoholic beverages, such as litter, loitering, graffiti, unruly behavior and
escalated noise levels;
D. To provide that alcoholic beverage
sale commercial activities are not the source of undue
public nuisances in the community; and
E. To provide for properly maintained
alcoholic beverage sale establishments so that
negative impacts generated by these activities are not harmful to the surrounding environment in
any way. (Ord. 2002-83 § 1 (part))
6.104.020