HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — Hampton City Council unanimously voted Wednesday to revoke the use permit to Chances Restaurant and Lounge amid multiple violations and violence there, including a homicide in May.

The city's Planning Commission had recently voted to recommend that council revoke the use permit for the restaurant on Settlers Landing Road following several violent incidents. Among the grounds for revoking the use permit: • Pattern of violent incidents and ineffectiveness of permitholder's responses indicates security staffing is not "sufficient to monitor and control patron behavior" • Continued violence indicates that permitholder does not fully "report all criminal activity" or "cooperate" with HPD investigations • Multiple VABC violations document that permitholder does not "

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