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3301 Silver Lake Road, St. Anthony, Minnesota 55418-1699 Office: (612) 782-3301 • Fax: (612) 782-3302 • www.ci.saint-anthony.mn.us Our Mission is to be a progressive and livable community, a walkable village, which is safe and secure. March 28, 2017 Dear Ms. Chrisler, I am writing to notify you that your Application for Massage Business license, submitted March 16, 2017, and amended March 24, 2017, is hereby denied. The City of St. Anthony has found the massage business to be “particularly subject to abuse which may make a number of forms contrary to the morals, health, safety, and general welfare of the community.” St. Anthony City Code, § 111.341(A). Where abuses occur, “intensive efforts of the Police Department as well as other departments of the city” must be deployed to a degree that exceed “those required to control and regulate other business activities licensed by the city.” The expenditure of city resources to control and regulate abuses in the massage business comes at the expense of the rest of the community and “diminishes the ability of the city to promote the general health, welfare, morals, and safety of the community.” Because the massage business is an activity particularly prone to abuse, and because the consequences of abuse are disproportionately borne by the rest of the community, the City of Anthony imposes special licensing requirements on persons desiring to operate a massage business in our community § 111.341(B). To apply for a massage business license, the applicant must disclose the kind of information necessary for city officials to weigh against the potential benefits the risk of abuse and cost to the community of allowing the applicant to operate the particular business in the community § 111.342. This information includes the identity of the applicant, the applicant’s current and recent past residences and businesses or occupations, as well as the applicant’s past convictions for state crimes and violations of the City Code, evidence of good character, and licensing history § 111.342(B), (F), (G). You bypassed these licensing application requirements altogether, and opened and operated your massage business without providing the city with any of the information and without obtaining a license required under the City Code. You continued to operate your massage business in violation of the City Code until you were cited for doing so on February 13, 2017. As you indicate in the letter accompanying your March 24, 2017 amendment to your application, you neither consulted an attorney nor contacted the city itself to confirm your licensing requirements prior to operating your regulated business. That you would open and operate a specially regulated massage business without first confirming and satisfying the legal obligations associated with doing so indicates the existence of an unacceptably high risk of future abuse of that business. For that reason, your Application for Massage Business License is denied. Pursuant to Section 111.348 of the City Code, you have a right to appeal this denial of a massage business license by filing a written notice of appeal to the City Council in the City Manager’s office within 10 days of the date on this letter. Sincerely, Mark Casey, City Manager 57