§ 3-4. Proximity to other vendors.

(a)

Generally. Subject to the restaurant exception set forth in section 3-5 of this Code, no alcoholic beverages shall be sold for consumption on premises within five hundred (500) feet of any other establishment selling alcoholic beverages; no alcoholic beverages shall be sold for consumption off-premises within five hundred (500) feet of another establishment selling alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption; provided, however, that the distance limitations of this section shall not apply to the sale of beer or wine for consumption off-premises.

(b)

In shopping centers. Vendors of alcoholic beverages for consumption on- or off-premises whose place of businesses are within a shopping center complex are allowed regardless of the distance between such places of business and any other business establishment selling alcoholic beverages in the same shopping center complex, including outparcels and areas or structures added after the initial development, providing such shopping center complex contains at least six (6) business establishments of any type holding separate local business tax receipts and providing that no more than twenty-five (25) percent of the businesses located in the shopping center complex have received a business tax receipt for the sale of alcoholic beverages.

(Code 1966, § 3-6; Ord. No. 85-28, § 1, 11-12-85; Ord. No. 07-03, § 1, 2-13-07; Ord. No. 12-03, § 1, 4-10-12; Ord. No. 16-07 , § 1, 12-13-2016)

State law reference

Municipal authority to regulate location not affected by state beverage law, F.S. § 562.45(2).