Document Category: Community Boards
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License Applicants Agree to Community Board Demands to Avoid Months of Delay from SLA- NYT
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License Applicants May Submit to Unreasonable Community Board Demands to Avoid Months of Delay in Obtaining Licenses:
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Community Board Stipulation Require Approval to File Request of Modify Method of Operation
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Community Board Stipulation often provide provisions such as “I will not apply for an alteration to the method of operation or for any physical alterations of any nature without first coming before CB 3”
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The New York State Liquor Authority Regulates Live Music and Patron Dancing With Community Boards
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The New York State Liquor Authority has acted as the major regulator of dancing and live music in venues offering alcohol using a scheme that Liquor Licenses and a venues Method of Operation must show whether the venue is offering patron dancing and collaborates with Community Boards to restrict dancing and live music. The SLA…
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May 2023 Coalition Position Paper
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Gathered here a citations, references to basic documents, and explanations found in the letter summarizing the need for reform of SLA and Community Board processes concerning dancing and music.
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SLA States At Listening Tour 2018 that Method of Operation Must Include Statement Allowing Dancing
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Whenever a Community Board objects to a License Application, for example, to restrict dancing or live music, the SLA’s practices is to require approval by the SLA Board, thereby pressuring license applicants to agrees to excessive and even unconstitutional requirements of Community Boards.
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Bar Association Committee Describes SLA and Community Boards Pressuring License Applicants
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In 2018, the Committee on Hospitality Law of the New York City Bar Association submitted a letter to the Office of Nightlife describing ways in which the SLA and Community Boards Impose Conditions on License Applicants and predicting that the repeal of the Cabaret Law will result in the de facto continuation of a near…
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State Liquor Authority – Method of Operations and License Database
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The New York State Liquor Authority is the dominant regulator of music and dancing in New York City. Reform of the zoning law will not remove the SLA regulation. Over 1900 liquor licenses in New York City require licensed venues to prohibit dancing; over 9000 license do not allow live music.
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Community Boards Ignore Chiasson Decisions Declaring Music Restrictions as Unconstituional
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The New York City Community Boards in cooperation with the State Liquor Authority have ignored the decisions of Chiasson I and Chiasson II in in 1986 and 1988, implementing restrictions against live music declared as unconstitutional. Although the City amended its Zoning Resolution in 1990 reflecting the Chiasson decisions, the SLA and Community Boards have…