The months-long fight between Navy Yard on Main, the proposed beer garden looking to move in at 102 W Main Street in Lexington, and St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, which sits just behind the beer garden’s chosen site, is over.

After a hearing on Dec. 3, state Administrative Law Judge Shirely Robinson issued a ruling Dec. 21 that the beer garden be issued its on-premises beer and wine permit for the downtown location despite the church’s objections.

The ruling stipulates that the beer garden, owned by Vision Ventures Investment Group, must comply with a set of conditions, though. These include standard requirements like acquiring liability insurance, a retail food establishment permit from the state Department of Health and Environmental control, a retail sales tax number and a favorable final inspection from the state Law Enforcement Division.

Navy Yard must also “remove or relocate the non-emergency door in the rear of the building so that when measured, the distance from that entrance is at least three-hundred feet to the nearest point of entrance to the grounds of the Church by following the shortest route of pedestrian travel along the public thoroughfare” — whether this door was too close to the church was at issue in the dispute. It must also construct a six-to-eight-foot-high fence along the back of its property, behind which is the church, and “make every effort to prevent customers and staff from parking at the church,” including posting of signs.

The judge also stipulates that the beer garden, which will have outdoor areas including seating and a stage, can’t have live music during the church’s Wednesday Bible study or Sunday morning worship services.

The ruling lays out that there was a lack of factual evidence to show why Navy Yard shouldn’t get the beer and wine permit under state law, including when it came to the church’s concerns about potential disorderly behavior from beer garden customers in its parking lot:

“The Church provided no factual evidence to indicate the granting of a permit and license at the proposed location would result in intoxicated customers leaving the proposed location and loitering on Church property, ‘trashing’ the Church’s parking lot, using drugs in the Church’s parking lot, vomiting on the Church’s property, continuing to ‘party’ in the Church’s parking lot after hours, engaging in sexual activity in the Church’s parking lot, sleeping or passing out in their cars parked in the Church’s parking lot, or vandalizing the Church’s cemetery.”

Navy Yard’s managing partners posted a statement to Facebook following the judgement.

“We would like to reaffirm our commitment to being good corporate citizens of the Town of Lexington and the greater Lexington County community,” it reads. “As we’ve mentioned many times, this is our home, and we are excited to begin construction in the coming weeks on what’s set to be an environment where all who visit feel welcome and can enjoy time with their friends and family over good food and drinks.”

The Chronicle reached out to St. Stephen’s for comment but did not receive a reply.