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MEMORANDUM <br />To:Mayor Webster and St. Anthony Village City Council <br />From:Stephen Grittman, City Planner <br />Date:City Council Meeting – June 25, 2024 <br />GC Project No.140.00 <br />Request:Beekeeping – Zoning Ordinance Amendments – Second Reading <br />Property Address: NA <br />Property PID:NA <br />PROJECT DESCRIPTION <br />Staff is bringing the proposed beekeeping ordinance changes to the City Council for the second <br />of three readings. At the June 11, 2024 meeting, the Council forwarded the first reading with a <br />request for additional information relating to questions around whether notice of a neighboring <br />bee-sting allergy should disqualify the application, or whether such notice should merely inform <br />the Council’s consideration of an application. The Council also sought information on how <br />other communities treat this matter (neighbor allergies), and how that issue might relate to <br />general nuisance considerations. <br />Staff has investigated these issues with the Code Compliance Officer who conducted the <br />primary research for the Parks and Environmental Commission’s ordinance work. The Code <br />Officer indicated that other community ordinances were reviewed in summary, and the PEC’s <br />work represents the dominant themes that arose from that review. <br />Thus, proposed changes to the second reading are collected in Subsection (G), and highlighted <br />for the Council’s review. The changes create a clear disqualification for applications that <br />elicited a positive response from any abutting neighbor to the bee-sting allergy issue. The <br />structure of the ordinance would create a process as follows: <br />a.Application is made to City staff. <br />b.Staff creates a notice to abutting neighbors of the application for beekeeping, including <br />a request for response to any medically-documented bee-sting allergies for current <br />residents. <br />c.Neighbors are notified of the upcoming Council meeting on the application, and given <br />the opportunity to respond to staff. <br />d.Any responses that claim the presence of a bee-sting allergy would result in rejection of <br />the application by Staff. <br />39