SUPPORTS ITEM NO. 5
VLLC AGENDA
SEPTEMBER 14, 1995
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
Date: August 30, 1995
Dept. File No.: vllc95.aug
TO: Vancouver Liquor Licensing Commission
FROM: Chief Constable
SUBJECT: Update on Licensed Premises within the Downtown Eastside to
July 31, 1995
INFORMATION
The Chief Constable submits this report for INFORMATION.
COUNCIL POLICY
There is no Council policy directly applicable to this matter.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this report is to provide the Vancouver Liquor Licensing
Commission with an ongoing overview of the problems and issues
concerning licensed premises, and the status of any enforcement or other
activities. Licence suspensions and other observations are included
from January 1994, to date.
SUMMARY
A total of 12 liquor or business licences have been suspended a total of
16 times in the Downtown Eastside since the beginning of 1992. These
suspensions are the result of a coordinated initiative by the Vancouver
Police Department, other City Departments, and the Liquor Control and
Licensing Branch (LCLB) to ensure that licensed premises are operated in
a responsible manner.
BACKGROUND
Licensed Premises are identified for inclusion in this report by:
- having been the subject of a Liquor Control and Licensing Branch,
Police, or City Council suspension;
- being scheduled to appear at a Liquor Control and Licensing Branch
Hearing or Council Show Cause Hearing;
- having a significant number of police calls or incidents, other
than of a routine or positive nature;
- having a significant incident occur in, or in relation to the
operation of, the premises; or
- being the subject of complaints from the public to the police
regarding the operation of the premises.
LICENSED PREMISES
1. Anchor Cabaret 99 Powell Street
(now renamed Senorita Frogs)
- Mar 94: fire exit light out, no name tags
- Sep 94: lack of control
- Oct 94: suspension, twenty-four hours, by police
overcrowding, lack of control
- Mar 95: disturbances on the street, noise complaints
- May 95: disturbances on the street, noise complaints
2. Astoria Hotel 769 East Hastings Street
- Jan 94: under age patron
- May 95: liquor seized for analysis
3. Balmoral Hotel 159 East Hastings Street
- Jan 94: under age patron drinking in the bar
- Feb 94: several drunk patrons
- Mar 94: minor in premises, over-service
- Jul 94: no rear door control
- Aug 94: suspension by City Council, two months,
over-service, lack of control.
- May 95: liquor seized for analysis
- Jul 95: Show Cause Hearing regarding business license
4. Blarney Stone 216 Carrall Street
- Jan 94: overcrowding
- Jan 94: suspension, ten days, overcrowding
- Jan 94: suspension, five days, overcrowding
5. Brandiz Hotel 122 East Hastings
- Jan 94: drug use in washroom, drunk patrons
- Mar 94: fight, no door control
- Aug 94: no door control, lack of control, fight
- Sep 94: drug use at a table
- Oct 94: assault - staff member not cooperative,
under age persons in premises
6. Cobalt Hotel 917 Main Street
- Mar 94: dirty washrooms
- May 95: cigarettes seized
7. Columbia Hotel 303 Columbia Street
- Mar 94: stabbing occurred, no staff witnesses
- Apr 94: drugs used in washrooms
- Jul 94: drunks sleeping, lack of control, no door control,
staff without ID tags.
- Nov 94: drug use
- Jul 95: Show Cause Hearing regarding business license
8. Dominion Hotel 210 Abbott
(Lamplighter Pub)
- Mar 94: suspension, one day, overcrowding
9. Drake Hotel 606 Powell Street
- June 94: confrontation during arrest of patron
10. Hildon Hotel 50 West Cordova
(50 Bourbon Street Pub)
- Jul 94: assault with beer glass, drug use in washroom
11. Ivanhoe Hotel 1038 Main Street
- Jan 94: 5 under-age patrons
- Feb 94: off-duty doorman drunk and involved in fight,
several drunks ejected
- Mar 94: disturbance and over-service
- Jun 94: two drunks, over-service
- Nov 94: minors and drunks in premises
12. Metropole 320 Abbott
- May 95: cigarettes seized
13. New Dodson 25 East Hastings Street
- Feb 94: four drunks
14. Old American 928 Main Street
Hotel
(previously the Vancouver Downtown Inn)
- Feb 94: minors in premises, poor door control
- Sep 94: suspension, two months, and divest interest,
possessing and selling liquor not purchased from the
Liquor Distribution Branch
(the suspension was upheld on appeal to the courts)
note: the licence has now been transferred to a new
owner, and accordingly the suspension set aside.
15. Pennsylvania Hotel 412 Carrall Street
- Mar 94: over-service, no name tag
- May 95: cigarettes seized
16. Pony's Cabaret 313 Carrall Street
- Jan 94: doorman interfering with police investigation
17. Rainier Hotel 315 Carrall Street
(Minto's Pub)
- Jun 94: drug activity
- Jan 95: minor in premises, lack of door control
- July 95: poor door control
18. Regent Hotel 160 East Hastings Street
- May 94: no name tag, no door control
- Aug 94: drug dealing in the pub
- Oct 94: several drunks sleeping
- Dec 94: minor in premises, intoxicated patrons, lack of door
control
- May 95: liquor seized for analysis
(Senorita Frogs - see Anchor Cabaret)
19. Sunrise Hotel 101 East Hastings Street
- Jan 94: intoxicated patrons and over-service
- Feb 94: drug activity in premises, sale of property openly
conducted in premises, continued service to
disorderly patrons
- Jul 94: over-service
- Oct 94: suspension by City Council, one month, lack of
control
20. Twilight Zone 7 Alexander Street
- Jan 94: overcrowding
suspension of three weeks is under appeal
21. West Hotel 488 Carrall Street
- Apr 94: drug paraphernalia in washrooms
- Oct 94: lack of control, over-service
- Dec 94: staff assaulted patron
All of the above observations have been communicated to the LCLB Senior
Inspector who has issued warning letters or initiated a hearing.
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