Agenda Date: 1/14/2026
Subject: Change of Location for Dirt Coffee Bar
Title
Motion to approve an application granting a change of location permit for a Beer & Wine licensed premise for ROOTS COLORADO INC. d/b/a Dirt Coffee Bar
Body
Presented By:
Wendy J. Shea-Tamag, Deputy City Clerk
ISSUE
Whether to support the applicant's application to change location of their Beer & Wine liquor license from 5767 S. Rapp St. to 2506 W. Alamo Ave.
INTRODUCTION/HISTORY AND FACTS
On February 7, 2018, the Littleton Licensing Authority approved an application for a new Beer & Wine liquor license for Roots Colorado Inc., d/b/a Dirt Coffee at the Rapp Street location, a rental property. The licensee operated at the South Rapp Street location for six (6) years and, when their lease was set to expire, they purchased a permanent location on W. Alamo Avenue, less than 900 feet from their licensed location. Pursuant to Colorado Liquor Rules 47-312(B) "When a licensee is required by lease, lease renewal, condemnation, or reconstruction to move its licensed premises to a new address that is located within the same shopping center, campus, fairground, or similar retail center, the local or state licensing authority may, at its discretion, waive the neighborhood needs and desires assessment requirements should it determine that the new location remains within the same neighborhood as the old location." A Change of Location is handled by issuance of a permit vs a license as the entity has already been licensed and is merely asking to move that licensed premise within the same jurisdiction, in this case within the same neighborhood.
Regulation 47-312 (B) states "Each such application shall state the reason for such change, and in case of a retail license, shall be supported by evidence that the proposed change will not conflict with the desires of the adult inhabitants and the reasonable requirements of the neighborhood in the vicinity of the new location." The reason for this change i...
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