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Item No: 11B1 Meeting Date: June 8, 2015 Type of Business: Reports Administrator Review: ____ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Desaree Crane, Assistant City Administrator Item Title/Subject: Update on Brewpubs. Breweries and Taprooms Discussion: Per the City Council’s direction, Staff is 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. 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. Currently Section 502.04, subd. 2(b) of the Mounds View City Code relating to Intoxicating Liquor states: Subd. 2. Places Ineligible for License: b. No intoxicating liquor or wine license shall be granted for any premises that has a property line within five hundred (500) feet of a property line of any school or church located in Mounds View except that the five hundred (500) feet restriction shall not apply and a license may be granted for any licensed premises that receives at least sixty percent (60%) of its annual gross sales revenue from the sale of food. The licensee must provide evidence to the City on an annual basis as part of the license renewal process that the licensee has complied with the minimum sixty percent (60%) food sales requirement of this Section. Failure to comply with the minimum sixty percent (60%) food sales requirement of this Section shall be cause for suspension, revocation or denial of renewal of the license. (Ord. 582, 5-28-96; Amended, Ord. 843, 5- 20-10)