Every person, firm or corporation desiring to engage in any such business activity or privilege in the city of Vancouver shall make application for a license so to do to the city clerk at his office upon a form to be furnished by the city clerk, in which shall be stated the name and residence of the applicant and the place where said business is proposed to be conducted. The city clerk shall then transmit the application to the city manager who shall cause the applicant and his premises to be investigated as to fitness for a permit. Upon completion of the investigation, the city manager shall forward the application, together with his recommendations, to the city council. The city council, after hearing such evidence on the matter as they deem necessary, shall either grant or deny the license. The privilege of dancing, pursuant to any license granted herein, shall be confined to the ground floor of the premises licensed, and no licensee shall permit dancing above the ground floor. No license shall permit dancing in the same room wherein a bar for the dispensing of alcoholic beverages is located. The word "room" as used in the last sentence shall mean an area separated from the bar by an adequate barrier or partition. Such barrier or partition need not extend from the floor to the ceiling and need not block the line of sight from one room to another but shall be entirely adequate to separate those persons dancing from those persons using, or in the vicinity of, the bar. (Ord. M-110 §3, 1953)