I personally believe the best course is for the state and for I actually brought this up to u somebody in Congress and the cratom wasn't even on their radar and so I think it's more just education and then for the state of Minnesota to maybe step into this arena and take a look at where can they as a as a state control this.

So, I think if there is a discussion with the league, it's to maybe look at not so much identifying the name of the plant. It's like the the cause and effect.

remember that it takes a long time to get through a criminal prosecution. So if someone uh sold to an underage person, this could be for tobacco or for liquor, it takes sometimes up to a year to process that person.

Minnitankka is doing things slightly different than some other cities in terms of that building permit requirement. And I think a a example is a a a business owner who's looking for a site in Minnotonka that actually thought they had secured a site in the city of Hopkins, but some folks secured this site previous to them.

Since September, then Zone Co. has been uh compiling and considering all of the feedback that they got out of those work group sessions. They've been drafting a new zoning map. Um they've been drafting language in three modules.

I personally would hate for all the good work that we've started to just pause not not knowing what will happen at the legislature.

research has shown that short-term rentals are prevalent in places that, you know, attract tourism, have high income earners, um, have high value properties, you know, a lot of places that are city centers and have really good transit.

The Weisetta case is going the crux of that lawsuit is that Weisetta says we've adopted our short-term rentals as a business regulation... and the flip of that is the plaintiffs are arguing that doesn't matter what you call it, your ordinance or where you say it's placed. This is a zoning ordinance.

The main concerns is that we looking at the chart which is a little bit more readable I think than what was presented in the staff report. Uh again, we in Mitaka Beach are the only communities around Lake Minnotonka that do not regulate um and do not regulate short-term rentals at all.

if I had to make a decision I probably would prefer that if we're going to do short-term rental it would be owner occupied. Um because I feel like I think about this landlord that lives in Minnitonka who owns homes in Minneapolis and she owns a lot of homes in Minneapolis but she lived in Maton.

I disagree with having to some sort of requirement for having the owner stay nearby or be in the place because again for our purpose, we wanted privacy. We wanted to get away. I could also see if we had um if we required homestead there being uh owners who say live in Arizona or Florida in the winter who want to have short-term rentals in their space.

I don't think if the issue is short-term rentals on lakes, that is not impacting our affordability. Like, those are two separate things. And I think we at least should be intellectually honest about that conversation.