Vending

Hollywood apartment seeks alcohol vending machines

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January 17, 2024

The owner of a Hollywood, California, apartment complex, Sentral at Inspire Hollywood, has applied for a permit to install two vending machines offering alcoholic beverages in "club rooms" on the fourth and eighth floors, according to a CityWatch report.

A city planning meeting was held on the proposal earlier this month and the zoning administrator is awaiting comments.

The city's department of public health has submitted a paper on alcohol outlet density and alcohol related consequences recommending that alcohol outlet density be limited.

Cities and communities with a high density of off-premises alcohol outlets were more than twice as likely to have alcohol-involved vehicle crashes than those with a low density of off-premises alcohol outlets, the paper noted, along with other statistics.