From
Chris Hartmann
Title
TA180101 - Text Amendment - Amendment to the Unified Development Code, Article 4 - Permissible Uses, Article 11 - Performance Standards, and Article 30 - Definitions to establish a definition and regulations for Microbreweries, Brewpubs, and Distilleries in the Central Business District. The owner/applicant is the City of Grand Prairie Planning Department. (On January 8, 2018, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of this request by a vote of 8-0).
Presenter
David P. Jones, Chief City Planner
Recommended Action
Approve
Analysis
Staff has received interest from multiple parties regarding craft breweries with on-site production, sale, and consumption. Currently, the City has no avenue to permit a brewery with on-site sales and consumption without subjecting the operator to a 70% requirement for food sales. Some craft breweries have food sales or a “bring your own” policy but it is not necessarily typical.
This item is an effort to facilitate the market demand for craft breweries/brewpubs and distilleries, particularly in the downtown area, and to take advantage of Grand Prairie’s logistical advantages in the DFW metroplex. Regulations allowing craft alcohol production, sale, and consumption should encourage operators that fit the profile of a craft brewery or distillery, with unique design and sense of place, high regard for craft and quality, and appropriate atmosphere that produces a regional attraction.
The following definition (amend Article 30 - Definitions) would regulate by-right brewpub and distillery operation:
Brewpub: An establishment regulated and licensed and/or permitted by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission which contains a brewery producing liquor or beer and which offers its product for on-site sale and consumption in the same facility or structure as the brewery and which may or may not serve food in the same facility or structure as the brewery. This definition may also include a ...
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