West oakland Liquor Store Report

West Oakland Liquor Stores:

...It’s pretty Ugly.

Environmental Prevention In Communities Presents:

A Comprehensive Report on Off-sale Liquor Licensees in West Oakland

The Alcohol Policy NetworkAugust 2009

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Background

West Oakland has 33 off-sale liquor licenses in the form of small markets, liquor stores, and convenience stores. Based on a 1996 CA Alcoholic Beverage Control regulation, West Oakland has an over concentration of off-sale alcohol outlets (liquor stores). For example, in census tracts 4014 and 4016, only two off-sale retail licenses are authorized. However, according to our data, there are four alcohol outlets in each census tract. Of the twelve census tracts in West Oakland, eight have an over concentration of liquor stores.

Throughout the past six weeks, we have conducted a research-based project on the West Oakland off-sale alcohol liquor licenses, where we have found that 58% of the liquor stores have disciplinary histories.

In this report, we will present disturbing facts we have gathered about West Oakland’s liquor stores.

West Oakland Liquor Stores: ...It’s pretty Ugly.Environmental Prevention In CommunitiesThe Alcohol Policy Network • August 2009

Inside Our Report:

• Fact Sheet of our Findings (Page 3)

• A Map of West Oakland Liquor Stores & Map Key (Pages 4 & 5)

• Data Chart of West Oakland Off-sale Liquor Licensees (Pages 6 & 7)

• Over concentrated Census tract data chart (Page 8)

• A Message from EPIC’s Youth Interns (Page 9)

• Data Collection & About EPIC ( Page 10)

West Oakland Liquor Stores Fact SheetWe combined quantitative information about the West Oakland population with the liquor store violation findings.

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Of the 33 liquor stores in West Oakland, 19 of them have a disciplinary history.

The 19 liquor stores with disciplinary histories have a total of 31 violations.

10 of the 19 liquor stores with disciplinary history have multiple violations.

•9 of the 10 liquor stores with multiple violations have had their license suspended more than once.

13 of the 19 liquor stores with disciplinary history have been fined for a total of $44,861.64.

15 of the 19 liquor stores with disciplinary history have sold alcoholic beverages to minors.

•6 of 15 liquor stores that sold to minors had done so more than once.

3 of the 19 liquor stores with disciplinary history have fenced stolen property.

1 of the 19 liquor stores with disciplinary history has sold drug paraphernalia.

58% of these liquor stores have broken the law; that is more than half located in West Oakland alone.

79% of the liquor stores with disciplinary history have sold alcoholic beverages to minors.

West Oakland is overconcentrated by 12 liquor stores, as defined by the Alcoholic Beverage Control in 1/1/2008.

This contains census tracts 4014 thru 4027 (+ 1 liquor store in census tract 4028). This area is bound by I-580 to the north, I-980 to the east and I-880 to the west and south. There are a total of 33 liquor stores with off-sale retail liquor licenses in this part of West Oakland.

Using information from the Alcoholic Beverage Control website, we mapped out the locations for each liquor store within census tracts 4014 thru 4028 (and bordered by the 580/880/980 freeways). We added schools and community centers to show their proximity to youth related activities.

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A Map of

West Oakland Off-Sale Alcohol Retailers,

Community Centers and Schools

West Oakland Off-sale Liquor Licensee Map Key

7th St. Food & Liquor

Golden 7 Food Store Orlando Market

A1 Arco AM PM Green Valley Foods P&M Market

Bay Area Liquors & Groceries

Happy (Time) Liquors

S&N Market

Blue Bird Market Ideal Market San Pablo Liquors

Bottles & Liquors K&D Market Sav Mor Liquors

Brothers Market Millennium Market Shariffs Market

Captain Liquor N&A Market State Market Liquors

Cypress Market Nasan Market Sun Beam Market

Dallas Market New York Market

Danny's Liquors Nick's Liquor Tolin Grocery

Family Market Oakland Market Yemen Market

The Organic Wine Company

Sales to Minors Violation (19/33)

Sales to Minors Violation and Stolen Property Violation (1/33)

School

No Violations (14/33)

Stolen Property Violation (3/33)

Community Center

Data on West Oakland Off-sale Liquor Licensees Violations code info found at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html

# Name Address License # Type Status Expire Date

Sales?* Closes* Violation Codes and Dates of the Violations

Census Tract

1 7th St. Food & Liquor

1460 7th St. 94607 435828 21 Active 3/31/10 Yes 10:00pm 24200 a&b 25658 a (4/9/07) 4022

2 A1 Arco AM PM 889 W. Grand Ave. 94607

376662 20 Active 10/31/09 Yes 12:00am 24200 a&b (x2) 25658 a (x2) (5/22/06 & 4/9/07)

4027

3 Bay Area Liquors & Groceries

3148 San Pablo Ave. 94612

470955 21 Active 7/31/09 Yes 12:00am 24200 a&b 25658.4 a (3) 25612.5 c (10) 25657.4 b&c (9/25/08)

4014

4 Blue Bird Market 3431 San Pablo Ave. 94608

402443 21 Active 8/31/09 Yes 10:00pm 24200 a&b (x2) 25658 a 11364.7 (7/7/05 & 5/8/07)

4028

5 Bottles & Liquors 1150 Market St 94607

294021 21 Active 3/31/10 Yes 11-12:00am 4026

6 Brothers Market 2837 Martin Luther King Jr Way, 94609

212472 20 Active 2/28/10 ------- ------- 24200 a&b 25658a (8/12/96)

4014

7 Captain Liquor 2531 Martin Luther King Jr Way, 94612

474716 21 Active 8/13/09 Yes 12:00am 4014

8 Cypress Market 933 Mandela Pkwy. 94607

367308 21 Active 9/30/09 Yes 12:00am 4021

9 Dallas Market 2539 Market St. 94607

384755 20 R65 Surrender

5/31/10 No 9:30pm 24200 a&b 25658 a (5/8/07)

4016

10 Danny's Liquors 1624 Peralta St. 94607

293147 21 Active 2/28/10 Yes 10:00pm 4022

11 Family Market 1600 12th St. 94607

468098 20 Active 11/30/09 Yes 10:00pm 4018

12 Golden 7 Food Store

2400 Market St. 94607

386626 20 Active 5/31/10 Yes 10:00pm 24200 a&b 25658a (4/9/07)

4016

13 Green Valley Foods

749 Adeline St. 94607

366764 21 Active 6/30/09 Yes 10:00pm 24200 a&b (x2) 12020 a (1) 25658 a (12/8/05 & 6/8/06)

4025

14 Happy (Time) Liquors

1647 8th St. 94607 283752 21 Active 4/30/10 Yes 10:00pm 24200 a&b 25658 a (3/8/08)

4018

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Ideal Market 2036 Market St. 94607

443453 20 Active 10/31/09 Yes 10:00pm 24200 a&b 25658 a (4/9/07)

4027

16 K&D Market 1100 24th St. 94607

325971 20 Active 3/31/10 Yes 11:00pm 24200 a&b (x2) 25658 a (x2) (1/15/98 & 5/9/06)

4016

Data on West Oakland Off-sale Liquor Licensees Violations code info found at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html

17 Millennium Market

1741 Market St. 94607

294022 21 Active 4/30/10 Yes 11:00pm 4027

18 N&A Market 3147 Adeline St. 94608

339440 20 Active 2/28/10 Yes 10:00pm 24200 a&b (x2) 25658 a (x2) (5/9/06 & 4/23/08)

4015

19 Nasan Market 3401 Adeline St. 94608

189851 20 Active 1/31/10 No 10:00pm 24200 a&b 664/496 (10/6/98) 4015

20 New York Market 3446 Market St. 94608

426980 20, 21 R65 Surrender

7/31/09 No -------- 4014

21 Nick's Liquor 2401 Adeline St. 94607

308306 21 Active 6/30/09 Yes 12:00 am 24200 a&b (x2) 25658a 23804 (1/9/98 & 11/10/05)

4016

22 Oakland Market 1000 18th St. 94607

476167 20 Active 3/31/10 Yes 10:00pm 4024

23 Orlando Market 2940 Linden St. 94608

340316 21 Active 3/31/10 Yes 8:00pm 4015

24 P&M Market 1405 34th St. 94608

231310 21 Active 10/31/09 Yes 12:00am 24200 a&b 664/496 (10/2/98) 4017

25 S&N Market 3222 Martin Luther King Jr Way 94609

369093 20 Active 9/30/09 No 11:00pm 4014

26 San Pablo Liquors

2363-67 San Pablo Ave, 94612

285198 21 Active 5/31/10 Yes 11:00pm 24200 a&b (x2) 25658 a (x2) ( 10/2/98 & 7/18/01)

4027

27 Sav Mor Liquors 1333 Peralta St. 94607

345262 21 Active 8/31/09 Yes 11:00pm 4022

28 Shariffs Market 1044 Willow St. 94609

375762 20 Active 6/30/09 Yes 8:30pm 24200 a&b 25658 a (4/9/07)

4018

29 State Market Liquors

707 Willow St. 94607

288993 21 Active 10/31/09 Yes 1:00am 24200 a&b (x3) 25658 a (x3) (1/30/98 & 4/9/07 & 9/24/07)

4018

30 Sun Beam Market 1400 Adeline St. 94607

474846 20 Active 8/31/09 Yes 9:30pm 4024

31 The Organic Wine Company

1111 Pine St. 94607

302547 20 Active 1/31/10 Yes -------- 4017

32 Tolin Grocery 799 17th St. 94612 20071 20 Active 1/31/10 Yes 5:00pm 4027 33 Yemen Market 1501 34th St.

94608 155212 20 Active 2/28/10 Yes 10:00pm 24200 a&b (x3) 25658 a

664/496 330.1 (5/8/97 & 7/22/98 & 10/6/98) 7

4017

*Stores were called and asked if they sold alcohol and closing time. Violation Dates were obtained by the CA ABC on 8/27/09 BOLD RED: Disciplinary History

The Over Concentration of West Oakland Liquor Stores according to Census Tract.

Here we list West Oakland census tracts, the number of authorized Liquor stores, the actual number of stores currently within the census tract, the number of liquor stores over the limit, the names of the liquor stores and the total population of the census tract.

Liquor stores in red have violations (see Data Chart on pages 4 and 5)

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Census

Tract

Authorized as

of 1/1/2008

Actual # Over Liquor Store(s) Total

Population

4014 4 5 1 Bay Area Liquors & Groceries, Brothers Market,

Captain Liquor, New York Market, S&N Market4765

4015 2 3 1 N&A Market, Nasan Market, Orlando Market 2578

4016 2 4 2 Dallas Market, Golden 7 Food Store, K&D Market,

Nick's Liquor1768

4017 2 3 1 P&M Market, The Organic Wine Company, Yemen

Market1768

4018 2 4 2 Family Market, Happy Time Liquors, Shariffs Market,

State Market Liquors2063

4021 1 1 0 Cypress Market 1258

4022 2 3 1 7th St. Food and Liquor, Danny's Liquor, Sav Mor

Liquors1712

4024 2 1 0 Sun Beam Market 2628

4025 2 1 0 Green Valley Foods 1695

4026 1 2 1 Bottles & Liquors, Oakland Market 1061

4027 2 5 3 A1 Arco AM PM, Ideal Market, Millenium Market, San

Pablo Liquors, Tolin Grocery2008

4028

(1/2)

2 1 0 Blue Bird Market 1863

Total : 24 33 12 33 25167

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A Message From EPIC Youth Interns Elisa Chan and Brianna Pang

Living in Oakland for all seventeen years of our lives, we realize that these violations by off-sale retail licensees of West Oakland must be halted for the sake of our communities' health. From our research, we would like to highlight three main points:

1)The over-concentration - According to the 1996 ABC regulation, only one off-sale retail license is authorized per population of 1,518 people in Alameda County. Nonetheless, several census tracts have managed to acquire 200% in excess of what is approved. This over-concentration exposes youth early on to alcohol. There are even more liquor stores than libraries! Furthermore, why is the number of licenses granted even based on a general human population? Why are youth under 21 included in this count when they are not legally allowed to drink?

2)The violations - One of our main concerns is that there has been minimal action taken as a result of these violations. In several cases, the licensees, who were fined for breaking the ABC regulations or had licenses suspended, were pardoned. Why is it that the 19 liquor stores with disciplinary history, ranging from fencing stolen property to selling alcoholic beverages to minors to selling drug paraphernalia, are even allowed to continue their business today?

3)The locations - After mapping out the license locations, schools, and community centers, we noticed that location is vital to interpreting and analyzing the violations' trends. For example, the licenses that contain "fencing stolen property" charges were all from 34th St. In addition, the licenses that include "selling to minors" charges are centered around some schools (namely, McClymonds High School). All the liquor stores without violations are located in the same general area. Is it really just a coincidence that most of the liquor stores near large populations of youth have "selling to minors" offenses? How can one expect to clean up the community when youth have so much detrimental propaganda around them?

We conclude that the West Oakland liquor stores' actions must be somehow regulated in a more efficient manner. We hope that this research can contribute to efforts of creating a better community and healthier Oakland youth. After all, right now, the West Oakland liquor stores are pretty ugly.

For additional copies of this report, please contact:

Environmental Prevention In CommunitiesThe Alcohol Policy Network2201 Broadway Suite 208 p (510)251-1619 Oakland, CA 94612 f (510)251-2613www.youthEPIC.org

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Acknowledgments

Prepared by: Elisa Chan, Brianna Pang, Celana Ahtye

Contributors: Celana Ahtye, Elisa Chan, Edward Kikumoto and Brianna Pang

Researchers: Elisa Chan, Michael Joseph, Adimu Madyun, Daniel Major, Brianna Pang

Design: Celana Ahtye

About EPIC

Environmental Prevention in Communities is a youth driven environmental prevention and advocacy project of the Alcohol Policy Network that trains youth aged 15-20 from Alameda County to identify problems around alcohol in their community. We then create strategies for prevention and education through campaigns, research-based projects, and policy development around alcohol and tobacco related issues.

Environmental prevention is an essential part of a comprehensive approach to the prevention of alcohol and tobacco problems, and a proven strategy for helping youth and adults make healthy choices. To achieve this outcome, we promote responsible actions by government, communities and the alcohol and tobacco industry.

Data Collection

Starting in July and over a period of six weeks, our EPIC interns began this study by conducting observational storefront surveys and cold calls in West Oakland including photo documentation of all the liquor stores within the boundaries of I-580, I-880 and I-980 freeways. EPIC interns then developed a data chart, google map, fact sheet and wrote an editorial about their findings.

All other West Oakland liquor store data used in this report was obtained from the California Alcoholic Beverage Control’s (ABC) website in July 2009. The demographics data was obtained from the 2000 US Census.