Anchorage Assembly to weigh waiving protest of 13 liquor license renewals

The Anchorage Assembly is scheduled Wednesday, Nov. 4, to vote on waiving its right to protest 2026-2027 liquor license renewals for 13 businesses: Humpy's Great Alaskan Alehouse, Los Arcos, The Spare Room, Piper's Restaurant & Lounge, Umami BBQ, Golden Gate Restaurant, The Dirty Apron, Alaska Burger & Brew Downtown, Rice Garden, Allocated, North Pole Liquor II, the Buckaroo Club and G Building.

The businesses are in the Spenard, Mountain View, Downtown, Midtown, U-Med/Tudor, Northeast and Abbott Loop community council areas.

State law lets the Assembly protest a license renewal within 60 days of receiving the application, and the protest is honored unless the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board finds it arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable. The protest deadline is Nov. 7, and Nov. 4 is the Assembly's last regular meeting before then, according to a memo from Municipal Clerk Jamie Heinz.

The clerk reports that none of the businesses owe taxes and that each has the special land-use permit city code requires. Health, fire, land use enforcement and building safety officials have sent their certifications.

State notices set board review of several of the renewals for Nov. 17. The board will not grant or deny a renewal then unless the local government waives its protest right.

The Assembly is also scheduled to consider waiving protest of a new general wholesale license for Columbia Distributing. It also takes up conditional protests, which would hold a renewal until a requirement is met, for the Eagle River Alehouse, which the clerk reports owes city taxes, and for the Crazy Horse, which lacks fire department certification, as Alaska News reported Oct. 28.