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))
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