Kallay's Inc. v. Katona
| Decision Date | 06 April 1965 |
| Citation | 209 A.2d 185,152 Conn. 546 |
| Parties | KALLAY'S INC. v. Mary KATONA, Town Clerk of the Town of Fairfield, et al. Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut |
| Court | Connecticut Supreme Court |
John T. Fitzpatrick and Donal C. Collimore, Fairfield, with whom, on the brief, was T. F. Gilroy Daly, Fairfield, for appellant (plaintiff).
John J. Darcy, Town Atty., for appellee (named defendant).
Daniel D. McDonald, Bridgeport, for appellees (defendants Lappell et al.).
Before KING, C. J., and MURPHY, ALCORN, COMLEY, and SHANNON, JJ.
On May 29, 1963, the named defendant as the town clerk of Fairfield certified that the sale of alcoholic liquor under a package store permit for the premises at 973 Kings Highway, Fairfield, for which the plaintiff made application, was not prohibited by the local zoning ordinance. General Statutes § 30-44. On June 12, the named defendant revoked her certification in a letter to the liquor control commission on the advice of the town attorney that the zoning ordinance did prohibit such a use at that address. The plaintiff instituted this action in mandamus to compel the named defendant to certify the plaintiff's application. From a judgment rendered for the defendants, the plaintiff has appealed.
Since 1937, a restaurant with a full liquor restaurant permit has been conducted on these premises by the plaintiff and its predecessor. The premises are in a business zone. A tavern operating under a tavern permit is within 1500 feet of the plaintiff's premises. In 1946, the sale of alcoholic liquor on the plaintiff's premises became a nonconforming use upon the adoption of a zoning regulation which prohibited such a use within 1500 feet of any other premises where the sale of liquor is allowed under any drug store permit, package store permit, restaurant permit, restaurant permit for beer only or tavern permit. Fairfield Zoning Regs. § 3, div. 5(2) (1961). This regulation is printed in a footnote in Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Katona, 151 Conn. 417, 418, 198 A.2d 711. In that case, we construed (p. 421, 198 A.2d 711) the use of the word 'such' in the phrase 'sold under any such permit' in this regulation as applying to any and all of the five types of permits within the prohibited distance. Under this construction, the use to which the plaintiff desires to devote these premises is prohibited.
The plaintiff, however, points out that that opinion states (p. 420, 198 A.2d p. 712) that the purpose of the Fairfield regulation 'is not to control competition * * * [but] to control the number of liquor outlets which may exist in a zone where the sale of alcoholic liquor is a permitted use.' The plaintiff argues, therefore, that since it proposes to surrender its restaurant permit if the package store permit is issued, there will be no increase in the number of liquor outlets in this zone but simply a substitution of a permit which allows the sale of liquor for off-premises consumption for one which allows the sale of liquor for on-premises consumption. But, the plaintiff overlooks the fact that the exchange of permits would result in a change of use, which would be contrary to § 3, division 5, subsection 1 of the Fairfield zoning regulations, which provides only for the continuance of a licensed nonconforming business selling liquor 'under his present license or renewals thereof.' It is obvious that a package store permit could not be issued as a renewal of...
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