CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO
POLICE DEPARTMENT
INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO: Lt. Jason King, Special Investigation Bureau
FROM: Darlena Mayberry, CIO, Vice Unit
SUBJECT: Conditional Use Permit (CUP 23-01) and Public Convenience or Necessity Letter (PCN 23-01)
COPIES: Angelyn Mendoza, Community Development Department Planning Division
INTRODUCTION:
On July 7, 2025, I received by e-mail a project review routing and Planning permit application from the City of San Bernardino Community Development Department, Planning Division, Planning Assistant, Angelyn Mendoza.
The request from Planning contained attachments for Police Department review and comments.
The applicant proposes to allow the establishment of an ABC Type-20 (Off- Sale Beer and Wine) license for an existing convenience store. The business is located at 189 W. Highland Ave. in San Bernardino, CA 92405. The building is approximately 1,434 square feet, within the Commercial General-1 Zone. The hours of operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Monday through Sunday.
They currently have 4 employees with 2 shifts.
I received the project review routing form, planning permit application, property owner’s authorization form, ABC supplemental application, and maps of the property.
The applicant is Erika Diaz, the property owner is Erika Diaz , and the representative is Rep.
Woods, Diaz Group, LLC.
FINDINGS:
It should be noted that I used the address of 189 W. Highland Ave . for the Police Review Worksheet (see attached).
The project site APN # 0146-013-25. The business is in reporting district S1370. There were 59 part-I crimes in this reporting district between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025. There was 286 part- I crimes within a ½ mile radius of this location during the same period.
There were 81 part-II crimes in this reporting district between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, with 2 of those being alcohol related. There were 268 part-II crimes within a ½ mile radius of this location during the same period with 2 of those being alcohol related. There are a total of 219 reporting districts in the city.
The above crime stats reflect the number of part I and part II crimes in the S1370 reporting district.
The crime stats in the reporting district are compared against the total number of crimes in a calendar year for all reporting districts.
The above crime statistics were obtained utilizing the crime View Dashboard database. These are not UCR verified statistics and may not reflect what is reported to the California State Department of Justice.
I generated a one-year Incident Analysis Report for 189 W. Highland Ave. in San Bernardino, between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025. There were 40 calls for service, and 2 reports were required.
The project site is in Census Tract 55.00. There are 7 active existing Off-Sale ABC licenses in this census tract with an allowance for 5, with an overage of 2 ABC licenses in this census tract. This projected license will increase the active licenses allowed in the census tract by 1.
There are 7 active existing On-Sale ABC licenses in this census tract with an allowance for 5, with an overage of 2 ABC licenses in this census tract. This projected license will not increase active licenses allowed in this census tract.
During the review, it was determined that there was a total of 14,982 Part I and Part II crimes in the city from July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, when divided by a total of 219 reporting districts .
This translates to the general crime rate of 68.41 part I and part II crimes per reporting district within the course of the period reviewed. The proposed location within the reporting district saw a total of 140 crimes during the reviewed period. The 140 crimes in this location when compared with the 68.41 average crimes per reporting district exceeds the average by 104.65%.
These numbers do reflect an oversaturation in the number of ABC licenses issued, for On-Sale and Off-Sale ABC licenses in this census tract. A worksheet detailing the crime rate in the proposed location compared to the crime rate of the entire City of San Bernardino was prepared.
This was done in accordance with City Municipal Code, Chapter 19.06, Section III, Locational Restrictions.
(F) The following location conditions will be considered in the review of Conditional Use Permit applications, and may be grounds for denial based on potential adverse effects to the public interest, health, safety, or convenience:
1. A location within a crime reporting district, or within 500 feet of a crime reporting district, where the general crime rate exceeds the city-wide general crime rate by more than 20 percent.
2. A location where the new alcoholic beverage sales activity would be within 500 feet from an existing alcoholic beverage sales activity or would lead to the grouping of more than four alcoholic sales activities within a 1,000-foot radius from the new alcoholic beverage sales activity.
The San Bernardino Police Department is following ABC best practices with reviewing the crime rate in both the property location and the entire City. This was done in accordance with City Municipal Code, Chapter 19.06, Section III, Locational Restrictions (I) 1. Commercial Zones Ch.
19.06 26-46 Rev. Oct. 2019.
The applicant has not yet completed the process for issuance of the updated ABC license and may not do so until the Conditional Use Permit is approved.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
The San Bernardino Police Department has provided crime data and Alcoholic Beverage Control saturation findings for the affected reporting district. The Department does not endorse or oppose this application and offers neither approval nor denial. I recommend that this staff study and its accompanying documentation be forwarded to the Community & Economic Development Department for their review and final recommendation.
ATTACHMENTS: 1. Project Review Routing, Planning permit application,
2. ABC Off-Sale conditions, ABC supplemental application
3. Justification letter
4. Police Concerns worksheet
5. Incident Analysis Report
6. Maps
POLICE REVIEW
Location
C.U.P. #
RD
Report Date
JUL-SEPT OCT-DEC JAN-MAR APR-JUN
Proposed Location 1/2 mile radius 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter Total Crimes Part I Crimes RD 1/2 mile radius All City All City All City All City Persons 19 90 492 414 424 599 1929
Property 40 196 1643 1586 1511 1312 6052
Total 59 286 2135 2000 1935 1911 7981
Part II Crimes
Arrests 81 268 1781 1480 1592 2148 7001
Alcohol Related 2 2 1 2 1 67 71
% 2% 1% 0% 0% 0% 3% 1%
ABC
Grand Total Part I
and Part II Crimes
(citi-wide crime) 14982
Census Tract 55
Average # of
crimes per RD 68.4109589
On Sale Off Sale
Total Part I/Part II
crimes this RD 140
Existing 7 7
% of crime above
Stat Avg for all
RD's 104.65%
Allowed 5 5
2 2
*measurements are
approximate,
obtained point-to-
point, using Google
Earth
STATS (Previous 12 months) JULY 2024- JULY 2025
189 W. Highland
7/16/2025
S1370
CUP 23-01 & PCN 23-01