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Recommendation to reject the Hearing Officer's recommendation to deny Business License Application No. BU20520890 for Rancho Meat Market #3, located at 225 W. Anaheim Street, Long Beach, 90813, and instruct staff to issue Business License No. BU20520890. (District 1)
DISCUSSION
This matter was placed on the City Council Agenda for August 22, 2006 to determine whether Mr. Chang Kol Yim, business owner of Rancho Meat Market #3 located at 225 W. Anaheim Street, Long Beach, California 90813, corrected all outstanding code violations following a hearing to deny business license application number BU20520890. Attached please find a copy of Hearing Officer David Glasser ‘s Report, Findings, and Recommendations.
The administrative appeal hearing occurred on February 16,2006. During the administrative proceedings, evidence was presented that in early April of 2005 Chang Kol Yim purchased 225 W. Anaheim Street as a food retail establishment. The building was purchased with pre-existing un-permitted tenant improvements, including removal of an interior wall partition that combined two suites, and installation of a walk-in food cooler, all of which violated local and
State laws.
That same month, Mr. Yim applied for Long Beach business license number BU20520890. Based on this application, the City conducted an inspection and issued Mr. Yim a conditional business license as well as a notice of correction requiring him to submit plans, obtain permits, make all necessary corrections and obtain final approval of the tenant improvements within thirty (30) days. Although the conditional license allowed Mr. Yim to conduct business during the pendency of corrections, it also advised that failure to timely comply with and make all necessary corrections would result in denial of the business license application, and would also require him to cease business operations. Three months later, a status check revealed that Mr. Yim failed to initiate any corrective measures. As...
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