Good afternoon and welcome to the Hampton City Council work session.

Uh Madam Clerk, will you call the roll, please?

Councilman Bowman, Vice Mayor Brown, Councilwoman Campbell, present, Councilwoman Ferraby, Councilwoman Harper present, Councilwoman Muggler, present, Mayor Gray.

Present and uh Councilman Bowman is out of town today and will not be joining us.

Councilwoman Farabee will be a bit late, but will join us during this meeting.

Uh so with that, um the first item on the agenda is on the in-field housing plan book, but we are going to defer that item until May 27th meeting.

And so that I need a motion and a second to defer the item.

May I just explain for the public?

Um that the consultant was not able to be here today after all.

Um, and so they asked if we could reschedule them, and we wanted to make sure that the council and the public had the benefit of hearing from the consultant as well as the staff.

So we would very much appreciate you making this accommodation.

Okay, yeah, absolutely.

So uh we need a motion and a second to uh defer this item to be seven.

Second, all right.

I have a motion and second for the discussion on it.

All right, madam clerk.

You call the roll.

Councilman Bowman, Vice Mayor Brown, Councilwoman Campbell, aye, councilwoman Faraby, Councilwoman Harper, aye, councilwoman Muggler, aye, and Mayor Gray.

Aye.

And so with that, I'll ask the city manager to uh introduce the next item.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um, as council knows, but for the benefit of the public, um we have been updating our zoning ordinances to make sure we're providing proper protections for public safety, particularly as they relate to our restaurants that have large gatherings and large events.

Uh one of the things council had asked us to do was to look at the restaurant two use, which is actually currently a zoning administrator permit, but to make sure that we had appropriate public safety standards for those, just as we do for restaurant threes, which are actually use permits by council.

And so today we're going to be having a briefing from our community development team.

And it looks like I was going to introduce Kim Michael, but it looks like we're actually going to have our zoning administrator uh make that presentation for you today to get your reaction to the proposed changes.

Good afternoon, Mayor, members of council.

I'm the zoning administrative for the city of Hampton.

Today I am presenting a proposed zoning ordinance amendment related to restaurant two establishments under the initiating resolution 26-0054.

The purpose of this work session is to review the proposed operational and security standards intended to address late-night activity, public safety concerns, and compatibility impacts associated with certain restaurant operations.

Alcohol service, live entertainment, late-night operation hours, and larger occasions.

The proposal also aligns restaurant two standards more closely with the current ordinance related to security staffing, three policy directions where operational characteristics are similar.

Currently, the restaurant to establishments with an ABC license may operate between the hours of 5 a.m.

and midnight.

The ordinance also limits live entertainment area to 75 square feet and prohibits dance floor or similar open gathering spaces.

Existing security requirements are relatively limited.

When live entertainment occurs, an attendant is required to monitor the ingress-egress points.

This would be the access points for patrons and the parking area.

Staff believes that these standards, existing standards do not adequately address operational impacts associated with the higher intensity entertainment environments.

As a part of the review, staff evaluated how surrounding localities regulated similar establishments.

However, each locality imposes additional controls related to live entertainment, late night hours of operation, and security requirements.

Most localities require security plans and security personnel when establishments operate late at night or offer entertainment activities.

This slide continues with the security staffing practices.

While the surrounding localities apply these requirements under the under varying conditions, the overarching standards is at least one certified security officer per interest to monitor the ingress-egress and with additional exterior monitoring of parking lines and surrounding areas depending on the occupancy and operation intensity.

The proposed Hampton.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, no problem.

Just to security in terms of the one per entrance and one in the parking lot.

I don't see whether there is any indication of numbers of security based on the numbers of attendees.

So these cities don't have, for instance, one security person per 100 per 175.

What you don't see that in the other localities?

As far as the consent the standards, the city of Newport News has that ratio of one security personnel per 100 on their standards.

Oh, I don't see it.

And in C.

I was just trying to figure out how did they uh come up with how many security persons were needed.

Uh well, that was a combination of the building code requirement as well as um coordination with their police department.

Okay, thank you.

In summary, surrounding localities commonly impose enhanced requirements when establishments include alcohol service, live entertainment, late night hours, and higher occupancy levels.

Staff also reviewed how localities regulate third-party promotions.

The city of courses prohibits third party promoters directly through their zoning ordinance, while Norfolk restricts them through a conditional use permit conditions.