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New cigar lounge liquor license classes created

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On April 21, 2025 the City Council approved, on its consent agenda, the final reading of an ordinance amending the liquor code to create two new specialty cigar lounge liquor licenses. The consent vote was 7–0. The staff memo says the request came from the founders of the Embassy Cigar Lounge, that state tobacco law required one license for sales to lounge patrons only and a separate BYOB license, and that each license is priced at $750. The Liquor License Review Board had recommended bringing it to the Council.

Documented status: Approved (recorded), Apr 21 2025. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Approved · Recorded in minutes

    City Council approves the liquor code ordinance

    Meeting date: Apr 21 2025. Agenda item VIII.I.1 (consent agenda): Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance amending Article 12, Chapter 6 of the Municipal Code to create two new S-5 Cigar Lounge Liquor Licenses for a Cigar Lounge Operation. Item VI: the motion carried (7 to 0).

    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-04-21, City Council, Apr 21 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-04-21, City Council, Apr 21 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-04-21, City Council, Apr 21 2025. Open the quote and source.

What was requested, recommended, approved, contracted, reported paid and completed?

Amounts are read from the cited pages and added up by code. A recommendation, an award or an authorized amount does not establish that money was paid.

  • Fee

    $750

    Services

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance amending Article 12, Chapter 6 of the Municipal Code to create two new S-5 Cigar Lounge Liquor Licenses for a Cigar Lounge Operation (Memorandum), City Council, Apr 21 2025. Open the quote and source.

Contracts, payments and completion

No contract, payment or completion record is published for this item. Approval alone does not establish completion.

Which parcels, agencies, businesses and projects are explicitly connected?

Official identifiers and exhibit listings connect records. A name, an address or distance alone only suggests a connection.

Organizations and public bodies

  • EMBASSY CIGAR LOUNGE (applicant)

What remains unresolved?

No condition or deadline is published for this item. That is a limit of the published research, not evidence that none exist.

Open questions

No open question is recorded for this item.

What does the evidence suggest, and what would change it?

No conflicting records are published for this item.

Official source records

  1. City Council minutes, 2025-04-21

    City Council, Apr 21 2025

  2. Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance amending Article 12, Chapter 6 of the Municipal Code to create two new S-5 Cigar Lounge Liquor Licenses for a Cigar Lounge Operation (Memorandum)

    City Council, Apr 21 2025

Editions and corrections

Each published change is a new edition. Corrections say what changed and why.

  1. Edition 3(current)

    Edition 3: 2 revised.

  2. Edition 2Read this edition

    Edition 2: 2 revised.

  3. Edition 1Read this edition

    First edition.

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “New cigar lounge liquor license classes created,” sources reviewed 2026-09-27, source records listed on this page.

Initial permanent evidence page published September 10, 2026. Follow the dated evidence above for later additions and changes. A source-check date alone does not establish a government action or project outcome.