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Newtown City Zoning Code

§ B70-8.01

Sale of liquor-alcoholic beverage outlets.

[Amended effective 8-1-2005 2-6-2013 effective 2-22-2013]
A. 
The provisions of this section shall not apply to grocery establishments, to stores selling canned or bottled beer only, to drugstores dispensing liquor on a prescription only, or to full-service restaurants whose primary purpose is to prepare and serve meals for consumption on the premises with an alcoholic beverage as an accompaniment to those meals.
[Amended 12-10-2014, effective 12-22-2014]
B. 
No alcoholic beverage outlet shall be located in a store where any door providing customer access to the store is less than 300 feet measured in a straight line from the nearest property line of land occupied by any school or church, provided that no existing premises used as an alcoholic beverage outlet shall be deemed a violation of these regulations through the subsequent erection of a school or church.