State statute limits the regulations that cities can impose on uh adult use cannabis type uses but however uh cities can still adopt reasonable restrictions on the operations for these businesses and limit the number of establishments in their corporate boundaries but the use itself cannot be prohibited.

I see in the current one cannabis is allowed in C1 it's allowed in C2 it's allowed in general industrial but I noticed that in the one coming up tonight it's not allowed under mixed use where we have like clubs lodges breweries distilleries uh taverns tap rooms they're all allowed in mixed use so they conform over to what we're looking at now now but cannabis doesn't go into mix use in the future one so why is that an outlier from these related businesses.

I understand that but we have a specific definition for cannabis cultivation business in all of the zoning districts we call out all of the other definitions this is the one definition that we don't call out just as as somebody who deals with cities and technicalities and I'm I'm trying to find the Nuance if we are o if we're comfortable with a cannabis cultivation business in the industrial district then I would propose we just add it as you know number eight cannabis cultivation business as we've defined it in the definitions.

we're trying to accommodate more modern infill developments um that have really shifted in the market in recent years so if you think of the Willowbrook neighborhood those are on narrower Lots than a lot of the city most of the city is 80 ft wide um and a lot of those are 4050 60 so we're exploring the idea of allowing 50ft Lots in some of the denser single family neighborhoods of Oakdale

this is just in the back of my head from what I thought I heard r in the legislature last year that they were going to not allow cities to keep high density out of residential area is do you know anything more on that on where that's at with the legislature and how that would affect us

24% for a single unit uh home seems seems to be tight do we have anybody that would be negatively impacted by that at this moment

I think it's important that we have a mechanism to be able to modify the parking requirements I've worked in municipalities where you know they're because of some of the old stand you know the old language hey you have to have six or 800 parks for your business which is just just way Overkill now it's a specific type of business but those municipalities did not have any mechanism to adjust so you end up building this excess sea of parking

I'm more in favor of the site perimeter versus building size because I think you know if I put a 10 ,000 foot building or a 30,000 foot building my site is still the same I should I feel to some extent I should have to landscape it the same regardless of the size of the building I put on there because I don't want to don't want to put a a tiny little building on this big site and then it's just a sea of sod because I didn't have to my building was so small I only needed to put in three trees

materials are changing all the time you have new materials come online and I think we need to have a better way when something meets a standard but it's not listed in our thing to be able to get that in there

I would like to be able to allow metal finishes because as again to Tom's Point materials are continually changing and there's always new Innovations and I don't want to have to tell people it just has to be brick and Stone besides that then your city looks like brick and stone and everything looks the same

the Planning Commission is a little unique when you compare to other advisory bodies of the city in that state statute specifies Your Role particularly for land use applications and other things like U the compreh the city's comprehensive plan

when I started uh there was was a class online class taught through the league of Minnesota cities that covered the legal responsibilities of planning commissions is that no longer available or over dropped participation in that