Background
The Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Board (Board) considered a petition from the Westminster Neighborhood Association seeking to impose a new moratorium on certain license classes and types in the North Shaw neighborhood.
The current rulemaking prohibits the following for a period of three (3) years in the North Shaw Moratorium Zone:
- New Retailer’s Class CN and DN nightclub licenses.
- New Retailer’s Class CT and DT tavern licenses.
- New Retailer’s Class CX and DX multipurpose facility licenses.
- New entertainment endorsements for any on-premises licensed restaurant or tavern to offer entertainment, a cover charge, or facilities for dancing.
- Modifications to existing entertainment endorsements for any on-premises licensed restaurant or tavern to add entertainment, a cover charge, or facilities for dancing.
- A licensed nightclub, multipurpose facility, or restaurant or tavern with an entertainment endorsement from transferring from a location outside of the moratorium zone to a location inside of the moratorium zone.
- The ABC Board from granting, within the moratorium zone, a change of license class application for a Class CN, DN, CT, DT, CX (multipurpose facility), or DX (multipurpose facility) retailer’s license.
Additional details can be found in the North Shaw Moratorium Zone Notice of Second Rulemaking.
Boundaries
The current emergency rulemaking creates a new moratorium zone that extends approximately six hundred feet (600 ft.) in all directions from 1909 9th Street, N.W., which is the location of Noah Noal DC, LLC, t/a Sound Bar, holder of a Retailer’s Class CT license (ABRA License No. 122864).
Exemptions
- Not applicable to any Retailer's Class CH or DH (Hotel) License.
- Not applicable to any license or endorsement application that was pending on the effective date of the original rulemaking.
Status
The current rules expire on February 6, 2025. View the current rulemaking..