essentially the city could retain um registration Authority for cannabis businesses or we could delegate that registration authority to the county... where if we retained registration Authority although it would take up more staff time because we would have to be the ones registering that but then we essentially would retain control control for things like zoning how many we have in um within City Limits and things of that nature

I think the reason that a county like VI would want to have cities turn over registration authority to the county and have all of the Cities do that is then this the county alone would get to set the total number of licensed businesses that could H happen in in the county uh and if some cities don't do that then within those cities that retain registration Authority the cities get to set their own limits right

and one thing we don't have control of is where they will put those within the county you know they may all be over towards Redway or something we don't know but but maintaining registration registration Authority we we do we do retain that right

if a city retains the registration and Zoning Authority that the law gives to cities which your You' now got a motion to do that in front of you uh if you do that there are some zoning restrictions you can place on these businesses so you can say they can't be within a th000 feet of the school and there are other limitations like that that you can impose

I'd like to publicly thank those in our community in our area who step up and help with the elections is very much appreciated this be a long long day so

just to be clear of our my firm's understanding of the law as it stands today uh and and previously under prior the prior the first round of legalizing THC in Minnesota under that law two sessions ago cities can do this can can license the sale of THC products low Lev THC products understand though that when the state system the State Licensing system goes into effect which is expected to happen early next year whatever license you've granted will just go away right the state will at that point cramping City licenses issued all over the state for THC or whatever City are licensing today

our city code section chapter 11 section 11.40 subdivision 2A permits apartments in the C1 District however they must be located above the first floor

one of the requirements in our code uh section 11.70 subdivision 23 um parking for apartment units apartment units are required to provide one and a half parking a street parking spaces per living unit or yeah per living unit um there would be no provided off street parking space

in order for them to find in favor of a variance request they do have to check all of the boxes um it's not a two for three or anything like that

mayor I just think it's important to uphold the Planning and Zoning commission's work and our ordinance as it's written it's the basis for my motion and the lack to parking speaks to a lot there too yeah

Santa grael came in with a low quote of 99,1 15617 so um asking for your approval to sand gravel and in the blocks we're talking I had the map in there one block at First Avenue Southeast and three blocks at Third Street Southeast and one block on Sixth Street Southwest and one block on First Avenue Southwest

so what they'll be doing is taking an inch and a half of black top off and resurfacing with a new quote a new coat black Co

I would also like to add that this is all budgeted funds um if you recall Council and just for council member Paul last fall when we were putting together the 2024 budget that is when we asked for an increase in the Street Maintenance um uh section of the budget just so that we can start some of this routine maintenance so our streets don't fall behind so this is um completely within that budget