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March 11, 2025 St. Anthony Council Work Session - 2 Minnesota Statutes Section 342.13 and 342.22. At that point, local governments will issue local retail registrations to businesses with cannabis and hemp businesses licenses issued by OCM. Staff is recommending that the Council take no action to amend Section 117.16 as previously proposed. Staff will continue to monitor the actions and directives that OCM implements specific to Minnesota Statutes Section 342-13 and 342.22 and when appropriate, present language to Council eliminating the requirements for local licensing. Councilmember Randle stated the Council had not decided this was something they wanted to do. It was not a Council decision. We were under the assumption that Council could control who got licenses within the City. Mr. Sonterre stated that since the Office of Cannabis Management will handle licensing for THC and Cannabis sales. Cities have control over distances and numbers of licenses. Vendors still need to meet other code requirements of the City. Mayor Webster stated a year and a half ago, Council was trying to determine how to handle retailers who want to sell THC-based products to sell edibles (for those with a tobacco license), and if they had a liquor license they could serve THC-infused products. Councilmember Jenson stated Council has control in that they can establish locations but in restaurants 10 mg products can be sold. He asked if edibles could be sold in restaurants also. Mr. Sonterre stated tobacco retailers could sell edibles. The question is can they sell liquid-based products. Councilmember Jenson asked if a restaurant could sell beverages and Mr. Sonterre stated they could but they could not sell edibles. Councilmember Doolan asked when the takeover will occur. Mr. Sonterre stated they will be rolling out the cannabis licenses first, and the THC products afterwards, possibly September. Councilmember Jenson asked if we can continue to do business as normal and Mr. Sonterre stated yes at the locations where they are currently being sold. Ordinance 2025-02 – General Code Updates City Planner Steve Grittman reviewed that the ordinance provided presents a series of proposed code amendments for consideration and discussion. These have been generated primarily through a review of the existing (and recodified) City Code. The Planning Commission held a public hearing on the zoning items, but this list includes both zoning and general city code amendments for review prior to final adoption. Many of these are thought to be clerical, but some policy issues are raised. The code sections modified were provided for Council review in the form of Ordinance 2025-02. The Sections were reviewed one at a time with Council comments noted. Section 1 – This clause enables the City to set an appropriate penalty fee as a part of the City’s fee schedule, which is typically adopted and updated on an annual basis. Section 2 – The text of the definition does not change, with the exception that a clause is added to clarify that retaining walls must meet the requirements of other fences, consistent with current practice. Section 3 – This change updates the City’s recently adopted natural landscape language (from 2023) to be consistent with the even more recently adopted State statutory language from 2024. Councilmember