##VIDEO ID:07OBc8WQTlU## good morning we will give just a moment to clear the waiting room good morning this is the voting hearing for the licensing board for the city of Boston today is Thursday October 31st 2024 today's hearing is being recorded and will be posted to the city of Boston's website while the public is encouraged to attend there will be no additional testimony uh taken this morning beginning with the licens premise inspection hearing which occurred on Tuesday October 29th 2024 item number one 253 Food and Spirit LLC doing business as Nashville Grill and Stage located at 255 to 257 Tremont Street date of the incident May 27th 2024 over serving alcoh H in violation of Mass General Law chapter 138 section 64 and over intoxicated Patron in violation of Mass General law chap 138 section 64 uh we're still waiting on the narrative to go along with a 7D video clip so my vote is to defer yes yes right add number two Las Palmas Market Inc doing business as El parar restaurant located at 290 Bennington Street in East Boston date of the incident June 23rd 2024 Patron on Patron assault in violation of Mass general laws chapter 138 section 64 and chapter 265 section 13A um I see no violation um I was more concerned with why the door was locked and their explanation was reasonable so I don't see any violation um I was concerned about not calling the police I I wasn't 100% certain that they were aware but I was concerned I I thought maybe some correspondent is just reminding them because I think to me some times that's a bigger issue is you know it's not the crime it's the cover up so I just want to maybe a short correspondence reminding about their duty to call police I agree with that okay so no violation correspondence from the board uh regarding their duty to call the police item number three identity Foods LLC doing business as poo Centro located at 225a Bowden Street in Dorchester date of the incident June 20th 2024 assault and battery employee on Patron in violation of M general laws chapter 138 section 64 and chapter 265 section 13A I didn't think this um Assa battery was foreseeable the employee was fired and the owner actually thought it was just a verbal dispute so I think that's a reasonable explanation as to why he didn't preserve the video evidence by SE a violation yeah I agree across the board I agree item number four at the request of the leny will be continued to the next payable hearing date item number five GSI shamad LLC doing business as Cava located at 315 shamad AB in Roxbury date of the incident July 25th 2024 persons under 21 in possession of alcohol on premise in violation of Mass general laws chapter 138 section 34A 34 C and 64 64a I see a violation yes I agree and I they don't have any history of this so my vote is for first warning I agree yes violation what they want uh moving on to the second licensed PR inspection hearing held on Tuesday October 29th 2024 uh item number one master sport service inc during business as TD Garden located at 100 Legends way date of the incident April 4th April 10th 2024 removal of two underage intoxicated patrons in violation of math general laws chapter 138 section 64 and removal of 10 intoxicated patrons causing a nuisance in violation of Mass general laws chapter 138 section 64 um for this one and the other TD guarded ones um my vote is to defer we're waiting on supplemental materials from their their side and their attorney which they need more time to prepare for us so my vote would be to defer all of them okay okay okay all uh seven items will be deferred until uh we receive the requested supplemental materials from the licing moving on to the transactional hearing which occurred yesterday yesterday Wednesday October 30th 2024 item number one Berkeley College of Music Inc doing business as Melo located at 699 Boon Street has applied for a common Victor license manager Shan Sturgis hours of operation 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. um I have no issue vote to approve I agree I agree item number two blank Street Coffee 120 Causeway Street Boston LLC located at 120 CA Street in Boston has applied for a common Vitor license manager Derek Craig hours of operation 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. I have no issue I vote to approve I agree I agree item number three Papa e RDR Dorchester LLC doing business as Papa John's located at 1501 Dorchester AV in Dorchester has applied for a common VI license manager was corrected on the record to Charles tab hours of operation 10 a.m. and closing time was also corrected on the record to uh 12: midnight Sunday through Thursday and 1:00 a.m. Friday and Saturday so this one was not um as straightforward for me as the previous two um this is a CV that doesn't even require a hearing um but because there was such opposition the board um determined a hearing should be held um there was a lot of testimony about competition um which were isn't even a consideration for us with these CVS and to dig a Little Deeper we've had similar fast food chains try to go into other neighbors um neighborhoods and um the the opposition really wasn't focused on the fast food opposition of this really wasn't focused enough for me um I also take issue with some of the testimony at the hearing um where they took into question um other lenses in the neighborhood and I thought that was honestly out of line by the applicant but I'm putting that aside taking a look at the application um this is one fast food place replacing replacing another fast food place that was previously there the um applicant um agreed to compromise um on the hours um they submitted last night a sufficient written plan as far as third party pickup and also their own delivery pickup um should this be approved all deliveries would have to be through the back entrance that the landlord owns that would be down fonner street and that would be a condition on their license that they would be held to um and um my question on the hearing yesterday was you know why they wanted to come into this neighborhood when there was four other existing Pizza places and I really don't know what the answer is to that they did come back to us last night with a um in writing agreeing to add healthy options to their menu um salads and other other um healthier options um so I wasn't able to find a reason this was not in the public good except for the fact that there was a group of people um who opposed it and a lot of that opposition seemed to be um along the lines of competition there was opposite there was some testimony about wanting a healthier option but I don't think this neighborhood has been able to um to make that argument bigger than you know on on this one case basis I haven't seen a lot of other movement towards healthier options with um applications that have come in here those are my thoughts um so at this point my vote would be to approve the CV license with the conditions we just described um yeah clearly that this application and this process this hearing would bring back to mind our the dispute of our Popeyes on Washington Street also in Dorchester um I felt like some of the arguments that were made were are clearly compelling about healthy options and and saturation having the same types of uh food available right there um the thing I the the distinction I can make from popey's is in Popeyes it was very clear that there was a ground swell of um very credible Community leaders behind it um and so therefore those people raising those arguments made those arguments much more compelling um I don't know if I felt like that was the case here um also with popey's issues with traffic weren't addressed and really weren't as far as deliveries weren't brought up because it wasn't the same time or same type of business as far as deliveries I know that was part of the basis of us still saying no to Popeyes um those are my thoughts uh meaning I'm open to the arguments that a small little neighborhood could be overwhelmed with you know bad food options and for me Papa John's I I would say is unal unhealthy food option maybe they're going to add some salads I don't think that's going to be a majority of the business they said they don't offer fried foods I think that they have fried foods they just fried somewhere else and they reheat them so that's where I'm at on my thought process um i' like to hear what commissioner Zach has to say as you guys know I am very sensitive about healthy options uh in neighborhoods um I think I think overall I don't feel like this is H this was as serious as maybe the Burger King that I voted against um I think there's uh I think there's at least some options on the menu that allow it to uh not be as delorious as some other fast food places um I also feel like most of the opposition was not actually about the menu but it was about uh competition and um I don't I didn't feel it to be very compelling I actually actually was a little bit annoyed by it um I feel like they they seem to be good operators um from what they have testified about um their willingness to work with employees and and how they treat their employees and hiring locally um so I think they'll be a good operation so I really don't I couldn't find a way to disallow or to vote against um this particular application I did want to say I think the chair's idea of putting the all deliveries from the back as a condition on the license is very good yeah I agree so chairman Joyce the the vote was and uh an an approval commissioner Caren commissioner Saxon is that across the board I think so yeah yeah my approval is conditioned upon that condition being on the face of the license about deliveries all deliveries right so condition that all deliveries must be made through the rear driveway accessed off walkner Street yeah should encourage them to continue to work with the community continue to have meetings to continue to to be in good relationship um so that it's a it's a strong operator and that that helps the whole Main Street area and just so anyone from Peppa Johns who's listening that means should they be found to be allowing people to devil park and go in and pick up their order um that would be considered a violation and their license could be suspended for that this is something we're taking very seriously in every neighborhood in the city so does this mean deliveries and Pickups will have to take place through that back deliveries and Pickups yeah deliveries and Pickups so said they were there was a a letter that they were going to send did they send that letter I wasn't we did get that last night um in agreement between the landlord and it was just short of an of an agreement from the landlord but we're going to go back and ask the landlord to sign off in it okay and approved with the um the revised hours correct yes thank you item number four concession Associates LLC doing business as the envoy hotel located at 70 sleeper Street uh has petitioned to change the manager to josa Glover I vote to approve U Mr Glover as manager of record I believe is the appropriate character Fitness I agree I agree item number five Huntington Theater Company Inc doing business as The cwood Pavilion at the BCA located at 527 Tremont Street has petitioned for a change of Officer directors I vot to approve the change I agree item number six Trinity Ashmont restaurant LLC doing business as Tavo located at 1918 doorchester Avy and Dorchester has petitioned to change the manager to Tara oen and has petitioned for a change of LLC managers I vote to approve Miss oan as manager of record I believe she's the appropriate character and fitness to serve and I also vote to approve the change of managers I agree I agree item seven gallway house Inc doing business as the gallway house located at 710a to 712 Center Street in Jamaica plane has petitioned to change the manager to Albi Jura petitioned for a change of officers directors petitioned for a change of stock interest and has petitioned to pledge the license and inventory to Rockland Trust Company I vote to approve um M Mr Jura as manager record I believe he the appropriate character and fitness to serve I also vote to approve the other changes that are requested I do as well I agree items 8 through 11 RB sbw Inc doing business as roach Brothers Supermarket at 8 Summer Street and at 1800 Center Street in West Roxbury has petitioned to change the corporate structure of the licens business and a change of ownership interest and a change of stock interest in items 8 and 10 and a petition for a change of ownership interest and a change of stock interest in items 9 and 11 I vote to approve I agree agree item number 12 will be rescheduled the next available hearing date due to lack of butter notifications item 13 W Entertainment Group Inc doing business as Limelight located at 204 Tremont Street has petitioned to amend the description of the premise to ground floor including restaurant approximately 1174 sare ft total with performance area stage and tables with approximately 30 seats lounge with seating for approximately seven patrons and bar with 11 seats 23 individual karaoke rooms together with kitchen service bar storage office space and restrooms building has entrances and exits at the front rear and side and is also petitioned to change the DBA to Viva karaoke and Studios I vote to approve the amendment I do as well I agree item 14 copper Smith Hall LLC located at 40 West 3rd Street in South Boston has petitioned to transfer the license and the location to a15 Neco TRS holding LLC located at 15 Neco Street 1 a.m. indoor and outdoor closing hour Michael Shay Sims manager I vote to approve Mr Sims as manager of record I believe is the appropriate character and fitness to serve I also vote to approve the transfer however there I want to put a condition on this transfer that any subsequent management agreement or transfer at the same location has to come back to us for approval and back to the community yeah as agreed yes as agreed makes sense right granted with the condition that any subsequent management agreement or transfer to the same location must be accompanied by Community process and approved by the board item 15 fajitas and Ras Inc doing business as fajitas and Ras located at 25 West Street has petitioned to transfer the license and the location to Parson CC sou opco LLC doing business as common craft located at 85 Dam rail Street uh Lawrence leoz manager 1:00 a.m. closing hour has also petitioned to pledge the license to Washington Village phase one property owner LLC I vote to approve the transfer I vote to approve the pledge and Mr lewitz as manager record I believe he is the appropriate character in Fitness to serve the board I agree item 16 manjo cport in doing business as menjiro located at 50 Northern AB has petitioned to transfer the license and the location to sarva Foods LLC doing business as sarva Cafe located at 279 Newbury Street bonus toaru manager 10:00 a.m. uh sorry 1200 a.m. closing hour indoors 10 p.m. Outdoors it's also petitioned to change the classification of the license to a wines and M beverages with Lor's license and has petitioned to remove conditions from the license stating alcoholic beverages to be served only in conjunction with meals and no bar I vote to approve the transfer I vote to approve the manager of record I believe he is the appropriate character and fitness to serve they also vote to approve the change in classification and to remove the condition the two conditions and the license I agree I agree item 17 Mr G's Corner LLC doing business as MD's provisions and Spirits located at 2193 Commonwealth AB in Brion has applied for a retail package store all alcoholic beverages license manager Amir Khan chower Closing Time 10: p.m. I lost my place and this is number 16 17 oh I'm sorry yeah um so I believe the applicant outlined pretty clearly the elements of public need and they are met I see this more as a gourmet grocery store that has an amenity of koser wines and spirits and other offerings um the opposition was very strong and um they made their um they made themselves uh they made their opposition very clear um I also commend the applicant for working with the people that are opposed to them and agreeing to certain conditions on the license um often when we look at these Package Store applications in my eyes I want to see how close um a similarly situated um uh license premise would be and this is different than the ones that are even a mile away from this location this is um it seems like a upscale uh gour cheese store um and the ones we we were able to locate all the other um Package Store licenses in the general area none of them none of them are similar um so I I also want to make a comment so I I do find um public need has been met um I do believe Mr chador has the appropriate character in Fitness to serve as manager record um they've also received approval from the city's planning department they've received approval from the zba they've agreed and they've agreed to no nips no singles no kegs um no Lottery no tobacco no delivery they've agreed to keep their floor plan on file which outlines the part of the store that will be for groceries and the part of the store that will be for alcohol and they need to come back to this board if they make any changes to that so for all of those reasons my vote would be to approve this application um I don't think there'll be any detrimental impact to the church they've agreed not to open before 11:00 am on Sundays um I don't think that will interfere with mass at all um my only additional request request would be that they send us correspondents with an inventory list prior to opening they are trying to work out their business plan as far as um what they are selling as far as beer whether they're selling six packs or or bigger and we'd like to have that on file so um my vote is to approve yeah I was sympathetic to the opposition but in order to be consistent and the way we evaluate these if we compare them to other neighborhoods um the distance the distances we're talking about are actually much greater than what we usually talk about uh as far as like what package stores are close by um there's really isn't a lot in the radius that we usually are talking about like five minute walks not we're not usually talking about miles away um so that you know as far as public need there isn't a lot in the area they did say that they were going to offer specialty offerings you can't ignore the idea that they're going to offer kosher offerings which are as far as I can tell by Google and no one else gave me any other information I don't think those things are um available very close by um yeah I just you know as far as um the one idea I didn't really know what to do with which is the idea that this this proprietor could do everything right and 21 year olds could pass off it on a different location with 20 year olds I don't know if we can hang that on them potentially I don't know if anyone can you know give me other thoughts but that's something I thought about I it seems compelling but like you know that could be true of any licy uh I don't know how we say someone can't have a license because in a remote location that might happen so that's where I was at on this application I think it's uh unique enough um and compelling enough of a of an application to approve did they submit in writing um how they are going to check their process of checking for underage like what scanner they're going to use questions they're going to ask the backup they're going to ask for I mean I I heard the testimony but maybe they can just submit it in writing sure we can ask for an operations plan as far as um checking for underage is that a so is that that's an approval that's an approval yes all right and just to make sure I have the list of conditions from Teran Joyce that was no kegs no nips no singles no Lottery no tobacco no deliveries um you had mentioned they not opening uh until 11:00 a.m. on Sunday do you want that listed as a condition on the face of as well great and the board is requesting a written inventory list prior to opening and a uh written plan for how they are going to identify uh C patrons and the floor plan has to be on yes floor plan must be on site at all times and any changes to the floor plan or the amount of alcohol sold must come back to the board for approval and the floor plan is available for inspection yes floor plan is available on site for inspection at all times and to and continue to encourage them to work with BC to work with the College Community and Danny for the record um I find that there was no specific evidence um saying that this will interfere with the operation of the TR so thank you yes the chair want mentioned that as well thank you great thank you all items item number 18 dtda Enterprises Inc doing business as Dono idonia Rapa located at 403 Center Street in Jamaica plane has applied for a common Vitor 7-Day wines and M beverages license manager Joel Marte Closing Time 11:00 p.m. but we're deferring all of these right uh these are oh yeah the remainder are all new license applications yes my vote is to defer the all new all of the remaining new license applications until after December 6 the remainder will be deferred until after all applications come in by December 6th moving on to non-hearing transactions the following are applying for a new comedic license at a previously licensed location item one Dudley food Inc doing business as Royal Fried Chicken located at 2360 Washington Street in Roxbury manager anoir Shaw hours of operation 8: a.m. to 11m I vote to approve I agree yes item number two starfish Egleston LLC doing business as starfish Market located at 3089 Washington Street in Roxberry manager yanan pñ hours of operation 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. I vote to approve I agree yes item number three pros and padas Corp doing business as Maxis Max's Deli Cafe located at 202 humbal AV in Dorchester manager Max alvor hours of operation 8:00 am to 10 pm I vote to approve I agree I agree item four little Max Inc doing business as Max's Del Cafe located at 150 Milk Street manager Jake Queen hours of operation 6 a.m. to 1: a.m. I vote to approve I agree item five MVR restaurant Group LLC doing business as proof Pizzeria located at 1312 Commonwealth app and Alon manager my Ral hours of operation 11:00 am. to 3: am. vote to approve I agree following have applied to make changes to their existing common vular licenses item number one the very twist Inc doing business as the berry twist located at 200 annual Hall Marketplace has position to change the officer director LLC manager to Andrea galz I vote to approve I agree item 2 1107 doav LLC doing business as Lucky Cafe restaurant located at 1107 Dorchester app in Dorchester has petitioned to change the officer director LLC manager to Robert Ang and woa woo and a position to change the ownership interest to Robert Ang 60% and woa woo 40% I vote to approve I agree item three JP licks at West Broadway Inc doing business as JP licks located at 397 B West Broadway in South Boston has petitioned to update the capacity to 44 seats based on updated ISD certificates I vote to approve I agree item four GF Enterprise LLC doing business as Taco Bell located at 76 Summer Street as to change the manager to Hugo cardas I vote to approve I do as well item five Water Street Delhi LLC located at 82 Water Street has petitioned to change the manager to Israel Bernardo I vote to approve I agree item six Shake Shack Massachusetts LLC doing business as Shake Shack number 1431 located at 800 Boon Street has petitioned to change the officer director LLC manager to Robert Lynch as CEO I vote to approve I agree items 7 through 10 all concern uh the same ownership interest change this is Boston Pi in doing business as Domino's Pizza at 506 to 512a Park Drive at 414 to 416 Cambridge Street in Alon 1400 Tremont Street in Mission Hill and 64 Stanford Street have all petitioned to change the ownership interest to David jenx at 51% and Dominic benov uh benavi Ben vudi 49% I vote to approve I as well I agree and additionally at the Alon location uh there is a petition to change the manager to ew Aus i v to approve I agree item nine at the Mission Hill location petition to change the manager to and Elmo Vidal Lardo vote to approve I agree and item 10 at the Stanford Street location petition to change the manager to Ruma karasan I vote to approve I agree I agree thank you item number 11 Pang sha Xian restaurant LLC doing business as Boston soup dumplings located at 113 Brighton AB in Alon has petitioned to change the ownership interest to shiao hang Pang 100% this is a buy out of the 50% partner hasion to change the corporate name to pxx Innovation LLC astion to change the opening hour to 10:30 a.m. 1 hour earlier I vote to approve I agree item 12 west garden Inc doing business as West Garden located at 1890 Center Street in West Roxberry petion to change the manager to Jan Hong hang astion to change the ownership interest to Jan Hong hang 100% this is also a 50% buo I vot to approve I agree item 13 Steward Steward St Elizabeth's Medical Center doing business as St Elizabeth's Medical Center at 736 Cambridge Street in Brighton as petition to change the manager to Ryan lenart I vote to approve I great following have applied for a one- day amendments to to their existing license uh the lcy in both cases is AHF Speedway Holdings LLC doing business as Charles River Speedway located at 1420 to 1440 Soldiers Field Road in Brighton item number one is an application for a one-day Amendment uh to extend their hour to 10 pm on November 7th for a fall season Gathering I vote to approve I agree and item number two uh same licy is an application to extend their license into to the annex for a wedding Tea Ceremony on November 10th from 12:00 to 6: p.m. I vote to approve I agree board has before them a list of applications for special one-day alcoholic beverages licenses which have been administratively reviewed by staff and approved by the board and on old and new business uh first item for acknowledgement the board received a written plan on deescalation and staff training from witchcraft LLC doing business as New England Wicked Craft Company at 54 Salem Street which had been requested by the board on August 22nd um just acknowledge it that we have received it a knowledge it will be docketed and placed on [Music] file item number two the board had deferred disposition of this violation uh to allow the lced to submit a requested security operations and dispersal plan Restaurante cesaria Inc located at 266 Bowden Street in Dorchester the date of the incident was June 28th 2024 a large fight a prey involving patrons outside the premise in violation of Mass general laws chapter 138 section 64 they did submit a dispersal plan which we have on file and we now have that to hold them accountable um given the violation that we were discussing previously and the testimony that there had been a lot of Poli response at that location in the um weeks and months leading up to this I I saw this as foreseeable and I do see a violation yeah I thought it was maybe a little bit of willful ignorance I think the testimony was that they were inside cleaning but you know I think the expectation is that they would like their dispersive plan says they would be outside making efforts to disposed so that's how I I agree um yeah oh sorry I mean interrupt you I agree uh and my vote would be for a written warning because they don't have any history here of this yes violation with a warning and the um dispersal land will be doed and kept on file item number three the board had deferred disposition of this violation as well to allow for submission of video evidence Boston Leo Corp located at 71 to 79 Warrington Street date of the incident was August 25th 2024 solves and Battery employee on Patron in violation of Mass General Law chapter 138 section 64 chapter 265 section 13A and assault and battery Patron on employee in violation of Mass General Law chapter 138 section 64 and chapter 265 section 13A uh we didn't see what led up to we didn't see much of what led up to the actual assault um on the video we did see the patron punching the U security guard first I'm sorry lunging at the security guard first and it appeared that the security guard response with self-defense uh so I don't see a violation here um it appears that way uh I think on one of the videos I saw something that might have been the precursor it's it's hard to tell um I I was concerned because of a couple things that if I was seeing that person urinating outside it was clear that he was quite intoxicated probably why he was outs urinating outside on a car um so that potentially could have been contributory to this and um just my sense of the self-defense was that it might not have been proportional I don't know I maybe it was maybe he was that scared of this guy lunging at him but maybe it wasn't so I would like to see correspondence at least on proportionality to to the threat I don't think we had enough to find a violation but it's not that I wasn't concerned I think it's a good idea I agree okay no violation correspondence on uh use of force and proportionality and Danny can we docket the fact that we asked for this correspondence so that we can refer to it should there be future incidents absolutely we be docketed those are all of the items before the board today thank you all and uh please enjoy the rest of your day thank you