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Item No: 07D2 Meeting Date: August 22, 2016 Type of Business: Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Desaree Crane, Assistant City Administrator Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing: Second Reading of Ordinance 925, an Ordinance Amending Title 500, Chapter 502 to add Microbreweries, Distilled Spirits, Microdistilleries and Taprooms Business Licensing to the Liquor Code Discussion: Per the City Council’s direction, Staff has been working on amendments to the Zoning and Liquor Code to allow brewpubs, breweries, microbreweries and taprooms in Mounds View. As a refresher, below are the definitions: Brewpub is a restaurant that produces its own beer for onsite and growler sales, while also selling spirits and the beer of others. Brewpubs can serve their own beer -- and the beer and liquor of other companies -- to patrons, but they cannot can, bottle, or keg their beer to sell to bars, restaurants, and stores. Brewery is a facility that produces beer for distribution to bars and restaurants and can operate a taproom that sells only their own beer onsite. It takes a separate license to own a brewpub or a brewery and an individual in Minnesota cannot get both. Microbrewery is a state licensed facility and may brew no more than 20,000 barrels of its own brands of malt liquor annually. Microdistillery means a distillery producing premium, distilled spirits in total quantity not to exceed 40,000 proof gallons in a calendar year as regulated by Minnesota Statutes. Taproom is a state licensed brewer permitting the on-sale consumption of malt liquor produced by the brewer for consumption on the premises of a brewery or an abutting property in common ownership of the brewer, which may include the sales of malt liquor produced and packaged at the brewery for off premises consumption as allowed by Minnesota Statutes. Per City Council direction at the August Work Session, Staff prepared the attached Ordinance amending the City’s liquor code by adding licensing language to authorize breweries, microdistilleries, and Sunday sales of Growlers. The City Council reviewed the first reading of this ordinance at the August 8, 2016, City Council Meeting. As stated in Item 07D1 in this City Council Packet, some significant changes were made related to removing regional and national breweries. These definitions were also taken out of Ordinance 925.