I mean, Chair and members, I think the issue is that it opens kind of the Pandora's Box. It's very difficult to limit, you know, you For instance, if you want to do automotive repair, I mean, that's not a by right, that's by conditional use um cuz that's already set up in our code. Um I think the proposed changes would make it really difficult to do some uses. I mean, we would end up with, for instance, a cannabis store or manufacturing growing in an apartment building by right.

And one of the endorsements actually that we had skipped to make sure that odor was under control is the onsite consumption... The um, cultivation of cannabis as well is uh we propose to do them through grow tents, which would have inline filters and carbon filters. And on top of that, the OCM does require us to have a negative pressure HVAC system, which would also include a large uh carbon filter system to help remove any smell.

There there is no supply... So we were working with a grower out in Hutchinson and we agreed on a price... and then in April when we met to uh to sign off on the purchase, he was going to charge us four times the going rate. And the the numbers I ran, if we were to pay that price, we would be out of business in anywhere from 90 to 120 days because the price you would have to charge for the product versus what they can get on you really you're really comparing it to what they get at the street level...

Uh yeah, I mean, I I keep going back to, right, this is not just about are we allowing one business to open or not open, right? Or it's it's about setting a precedent. It's about changing city code. It's about changing, I think, the nature of what the B1 zone is, right? The idea that it's meant for retail. It's meant for, you know, people going and buying something.