{"id":1220,"date":"2016-11-11T12:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2016-11-11T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:21:16","slug":"taste-of-wine-subjective-not-danbury-liquor-store-separation-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\/taste-of-wine-subjective-not-danbury-liquor-store-separation-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste of Wine Subjective, Not Danbury Liquor Store Separation Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing battle in Connecticut about laws governing the sale of alcohol has been distilled most recently into a dispute over the state\u2019s minimum bottle pricing rule.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalwine.com\">Total Wine &amp; More<\/a>, the superstore chain with a growing presence in Connecticut, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/politics\/hc-liquor-lawsuit-20160824-story.html\">has challenged Connecticut\u2019s pricing law in court<\/a>, calling it price-fixing that harms consumers and violates U.S. anti-trust laws.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Dannel Malloy agrees with the criticism. <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/Departments_and_Agencies\/Office_of_the_Governor\/Press_Room\/Press_Releases\/2016\/02-2016\/Gov__Malloy_Proposes_Reforming_Alcohol_Pricing_to_Lower_Costs_for_Consumers\/\">He wants to \u201cput the authority to determine the prices of these products back into the hands of retailers and out of the hands of government.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1223 alignleft\" src=\"\/assets\/2016\/11\/usa-1061844_1280-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"usa-1061844_1280\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/usa-1061844_1280-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/usa-1061844_1280-768x595.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/usa-1061844_1280-1024x794.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/usa-1061844_1280-1080x837.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/usa-1061844_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The principles of fair competition under debate hover in the background of a case in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\/author\/dcasagrande\/\">Cramer &amp; Anderson Partner Daniel Casagrande<\/a> successfully defended the City of Danbury\u2019s Zoning Commission in a court challenge to the validity of a City zoning regulation requiring a minimum of 2,000 feet between liquor sales in the City.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to obtaining a state permit, liquor stores need a special permit from the Zoning Commission to open in Danbury, and the Commission granted a special permit for a new liquor store on Mill Plain Road.<\/p>\n<p>The owners of an existing liquor store on Mill Plain Road sued, claiming the Zoning Commission had improperly construed the 2,000 feet separation requirement, and that the proposed store would be less than the required distance from the existing store.<\/p>\n<p>In a decision dated October 27, 2016, Danbury Superior Court upheld the Zoning Commission\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling determined that the regulation at issue explicitly requires the measurement of distance be taken from the pedestrian entrance to the proposed store to the nearest pedestrian entrance of the existing store, as measured along the public road from one entrance to the other.<\/p>\n<p>The Court rejected the claim by the owners of the existing liquor store that the regulation required a straight-line, or \u201cas the crow flies\u201d measurement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1221\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1221\" class=\"wp-image-1221 size-full\" src=\"\/assets\/2016\/11\/daniel-banner.jpg\" alt=\"daniel-banner\" width=\"294\" height=\"237\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cramer &amp; Anderson Partner Daniel Casagrande.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn a thorough decision, the Court recognized that the Zoning Commission had carefully and properly interpreted the distance requirement,\u201d Attorney Casagrande said. \u201cThe Court correctly refused to accept the plaintiffs\u2019 invitation to re-write the regulation to suit their purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While not receiving as much attention as the minimum pricing law, the issue of separation distances has come under scrutiny in the state. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/2003\/olrdata\/gl\/rpt\/2003-R-0571.htm\">Connecticut does not set separation distances but leaves the issue to the discretion of municipalities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/2000\/rpt\/2000-R-0782.htm\">Connecticut Office of Legislative Research report from 2000<\/a> offers some context:<\/p>\n<p><em>Towns in other states have defended distance requirements on the grounds that \u201ccertain uses if clustered together could conceivably generate adverse effects simply because of their concentration,\u201d University of Connecticut law use law professor Terry Tondro wrote (Connecticut Land Use Regulation, 2ed. (1992), pp. 79-80). Since courts generally defer to local legislative bodies on policy issues, they have not closely examined the reasons justifying distance requirements, he added.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When not about potential adverse effects and keeping liquor stores safely away from churches, schools and other family services facilities, separation distance laws have served to maintain the clich\u00e9d \u201clevel playing field\u201d when it comes to competition.<\/p>\n<p>However, some towns have been chipping away at separation distances. Last year, Greenwich tossed out a 1,000-foot separation distance between restaurants serving alcohol\u2014and a year earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwichfreepress.com\/news\/business\/pz-strikes-down-more-distance-separation-rules-for-greenwich-restaurant-liquor-licenses-38313\/\">it ditched the requirement for the same separation distance between liquor stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\/author\/dcasagrande\/\">Attorney Casagrande<\/a> has served as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Danbury from 1990 through the present. He is part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\/practice_areas\/planning-zoning-land-use\/\">team of Cramer &amp; Anderson attorneys who specialize in Planning &amp; Zoning Land Use Law.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To reach Attorney Casagrande, call the Danbury office at (203) 744-1234, or email him at <a href=\"mailto:dcasagrande@crameranderson.com\">dcasagrande@crameranderson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The firm also has offices in New Milford, Litchfield, Kent and Washington Depot. To learn more, see the website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\">www.crameranderson.com<\/a> or call the New Milford office at (203) 355-2631.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing battle in Connecticut about laws governing the sale of alcohol has been distilled most recently into a dispute over the state\u2019s minimum bottle pricing rule. Total Wine &amp; More, the superstore chain with a growing presence in Connecticut, has challenged Connecticut\u2019s pricing law in court, calling it price-fixing that harms consumers and violates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[6,40],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taste of Wine Subjective, Not Danbury Liquor Store Separation Rule - Cramer &amp; Anderson LLP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Attorney Daniel Casagrande successfully defended Danbury\u2019s Zoning Commission in a challenge to a zoning rule requiring 2,000 feet between liquor sales.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\/taste-of-wine-subjective-not-danbury-liquor-store-separation-rule\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taste of Wine Subjective, Not Danbury Liquor Store Separation Rule - Cramer &amp; Anderson LLP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Attorney Daniel Casagrande successfully defended Danbury\u2019s Zoning Commission in a challenge to a zoning rule requiring 2,000 feet between liquor sales.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.crameranderson.com\/taste-of-wine-subjective-not-danbury-liquor-store-separation-rule\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cramer &amp; Anderson LLP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crameranderson1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-11T17:21:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Daniel E. 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