Queens Chapel restaurant wants to hold live entertainment and deejayed music.
The politics of entertainment return before the Hyattsville City Council tonight when city leaders will consider holding a public hearing to gather feedback from residents regarding a West Hyattsville restaurant's request before state authorities to allow live and deejayed music on premises. The restaurant, Mi Patio, located in the Queens Chapel Town Center at 5420 Queens Chapel Road, has applied for a Special Entertainment Permit from the Maryland Board of License Commissioners, informally known as the Liquor Control Board. On the surface, the situation resembles last month's debate over dancing at Acapulco Spirit, another Queens Chapel Town Center restaurant located around the corner from Mi Patio. But where last month, the city …
Concerns about noise, crime, and potential code violations doom effort to obtain dance hall license for long-time West Hyattsville restaurant with few actual noise and crime issues and no recent code violations.
You won't be getting footloose at Acapulco Spirit anytime soon. Bowing to concerns from neighborhood residents, the Hyattsville City Council defeated a motion which would have given the council's endorsement to the West Hyattsville restaurant's application before county officials for a license to allow dancing on the premises. "I don't think they are in tune with what is going on in the area as much as they say they are," said restaurant owner David Santizo after the meeting, expressing frustration at the outcome. "We are trying to do it correctly by getting permits, and we're getting denied for it, while there's stuff in the neighborhood that's already going on without permits." No member of city council voted against the motion to deny …
Mark
3:10 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
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