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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes June 11, 2024 Page 6 2955 Pentagon Drive (Step by Step Montessori) — This facility is located in the St. Anthony Shopping Center, zoned Commercial. Much of the shopping center area would be prohibited from retail sales, again depending on the size of the separation distance adopted. 6 The statute permits (but does not require) the City to create exclusion distances from schools, 7 parks, and childcare facilities to any cannabis facility that includes retail sales. For St. Anthony, 8 the proximity of schools and parks to any potential Commercial or Industrial site is not 9 applicable, given the geography and land use pattern. The primary issue would be the location of 10 childcare facilities in the south portion of the City. 11 12 Mr. Grittman noted this can be first reading or the ordinance can be passed. 13 14 Councilmember Doolan recognized the Planning Commission on their work on this Ordinance 15 amendment. A residential treatment center was brought up by the Commission and asked if that 16 should be added. Mr. Grittman asked if a buffer zone around treatment centers was being 17 requested. Councilmember Doolan agreed. 18 19 Mayor Webster stated she appreciates the State Statute contains distances that cannot be 20 exceeded for example 500 feet from a daycare. There are parameters that we can work with. 21 22 Councilmember Jenson thanked Mr. Grittman for drafting this ordinance. He suggested this 23 ordinance be done in three readings after some other questions are addressed. Mr. Grittman noted 24 one question relates to home daycares that the OCM will need to address. 25 26 Mayor Webster noted since cannabis is a legal substance it needs to be considered along with 27 tobacco and alcohol. She asked how far a liquor store can be from a daycare center. She 28 suggested Council look at the Code closely and determine if alignment is necessary. She agreed 29 to have it go through three readings. Mr. Grittman stated it would be a policy discussion on 30 aligning the use locations and the sale locations. 31 32 Councilmember Jenson asked if smoking restrictions were looked at for marijuana. Mr. Grittman 33 stated the City adopted a prohibition on smoking cannabis with the prohibition of smoking 34 tobacco products following the Minnesota Clean Air Act. 35 36 Mayor Webster suggested the Council look at renaming Salo Park as Salo Amphitheater. Mayor 37 Webster summarized some items brought up as the buffer distance from a daycare following 38 Planning Commission's recommendation of reducing it to 100 feet and the buffer from parks. 39 Councilmember Jenson asked why the reduction was recommended. Mr. Grittman stated the 40 Commission believed that the daycare children would always be supervised by adults and would 41 not wander into a cannabis store. Councilmember Jenson noted the liquor store is within 100 feet 42 of the Montessori School. Councilmember Doolan asked how far it is. Councilmember Jenson 43 stated the City should be consistent. Mr. Grittman stated it is 300 feet from the liquor store 44 entrance to the Montessori School entrance. 45