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MEMORANDUM To:Mayor Webster and St. Anthony Village City Council From:Stephen Grittman, City Planner Date:City Council Meeting – July 9, 2024 GC Project No.140.00 Request:Cannabis – Zoning Ordinance Amendment – Ordinance No. 2024-03 Property Address: NA Property PID:NA PROJECT DESCRIPTION The City Council considered the first reading of amendments to the Zoning Ordinance related to cannabis retailing at its regular meeting on June 11, 2024. A second reading was held on June 25, 2024. The Council discussed aspects of the proposed ordinance, with modifications to the original draft language. Those modifications included the inclusion of residential substance abuse treatment centers to the list of land uses that would be included in the separation buffers being created by the Code; and an increase in the proposed separation buffer for child care centers to 300 feet, from the Planning Commission’s recommendation of 100 feet. The second reading incorporated those amendments, which are now included in the third and final reading in ordinance form. As noted previously, the language of the code recommends that the separation from treatment centers to be listed as “licensed” centers by the State of Minnesota. The City has the ability to research properly licensed facilities and make an informed judgment about distance and registration. There are some “treatment” facilities that operate as “sober houses” or other similar unlicensed programming which would not be trackable. Staff has inserted a 300 foot separation buffer for these uses in the proposed language. CITY COUNCIL ACTION Staff requests that the City Council approve the third reading of the attached Ordinance No. 2024-03, adopting the ordinance in final form. As before, staff continues to recommend that the moratorium ordinance enacted last August continue in force as further materials are generated by the State of Minnesota over the next several months. 77