How is the time and place for a public hearing?

Would the clerk please call the role?

Yes, Madam President.

This public hearing is relative to authorizing renovation of a special use permit granted to 1202 through 1206 East Cobbler Street.

The property have been the site of recent unlicensed cannabis sales, unlicensed, tobacco sale, and unlawful unlawful sale of flavored vapor products.

Thank you.

And before we get started, um housekeeping.

When you come up to the mic to speak, please state your name and your address so that we'll know who we're speaking with.

Um as it stands, is there anyone here just oh no?

I'm sorry.

Craig Billinson.

Yes, sir.

You can come up to the mic.

Oh, and you have two minutes to speak.

So they can speak loud and clear.

Uh good afternoon, Craig Billinson attorney.

My office is at 342 South Salina Street.

Um I represent the uh big SU food market and the owner.

Can you speak into the mic?

I am sorry.

Uh I represent the big SU food market, and the owners are here present uh with me tonight.

Um there was previously scheduled a hearing with code enforcement regarding the denial of the certificate of use.

I contacted Rob Carpenter of City uh law department and requested an adjournment of that because I hadn't seen the incomplete file at that point.

I just was retained uh this past week, basically, not this week, the week before.

And Rob was cordial enough to uh uh to grant the adjournment request.

So there has not been a hearing on the issue of the denial of the certificate of use, and I'm requesting that uh the common council also uh table this uh public hearing or continue it uh to give me an opportunity to complete my review and to uh confer with uh attorney carpenter to see if there's some resolution that we could could offer that would be satisfactory to the city.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, counselors.

Uh my name is Rob Carpenter.

I'm a attorney with here at the city of Syracuse in the Department of Law.

Uh the address is uh two thirty-three East Washington Street.

Uh just to briefly uh touch on uh Mr.

Billinson's points.

Um there there are a couple of different uh procedures uh going on here.

Um right here.

This one is uh a hearing request or a request that uh Zodiac Administrator Jake DeShaw submitted to the Common Council to revoke the property's special use permit.

His justifications for that is in a report that was submitted to the common council.

Uh as Mr.

Billinson pointed out, um the division of co-enforcement is also uh beginning procedures to deny um the store that operates there their certificate of use um application.

When the division of co-enforcement denies that application, they have to have a separate administrative proceeding uh hearing where the division presents their case for that, the uh business owner has an opportunity to present their case for why the denial is not justified, then a neutral hearing officer makes a determination on that.

Uh so they are two separate proceedings.

Um the store order will have an opportunity on the division uh determination on the certificate of use um separately.

Um I granted the request uh Mr.

Billinson's uh uh request for the certificate of use hearing uh so that he can have plenty of time to prepare for that.

Um I don't have the authority to grant an adjournment for the public hearing that obviously flows through the common council.

Um I don't see a reason why we need to adjourn this to allow the other proceeding to um proceed.

Um the reasons for Mr.

DeShaw's uh request for a revocation are I believe what well articulated in the report.

Um there was unlicensed cannabis sales occurring at the property, uh there was unlicensed tobacco sales occurring, and there was recently uh violation issued by the Ontonaga County uh health department for uh illegal flavored vapes.

Uh flavored vapes are vape products that are illegal in the state of New York.

Um, as outlined in uh Mr.

DeShaw's report, um all of those uh are violations of local licensing schemes.

That's a um violation of the sorry, forget me, I'll rebrief uh the special use permit that has been previously issued uh to the property.

Uh based on that violation, uh Mr.

DeShaw believes as uh articulated in his report that uh that has had a detrimental impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Um and uh the Office of Zodiac Administration would ask that the um uh common council vote to revoke the special use permit.

Uh I'm happy to answer any questions that the common council might have for that.

This is a public hearing, we can't actually.

Okay, sorry for you.

Sounds good.

Thank you, counselors.

Is there anyone else that would like to speak all righty hearing none?

I declare this public hearing closed, and the legislation will be considered through the regular order of business.

Thank you.