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I . I- CITY OF ARDEN HILLS MEMORANDUM I . DATE: November 16, 1995 I TO: Mayor and City Council Kevin Ringwald, Community Development Director If'; - I FROM: SUBJECT: Gun Shop Regulations I The City Council and the City Administrator have placed several objectives on the work program for the Community Development Department for 1995, one of these objectives was an ordinance I regulating "gun shops" within the City. Currently, the City Code does not specifically regulate these type of activities. However, the . City Code (Section 13-24, Subpart gg) does require these uses to obtain a business license for retail sales. I Minnesota State Statutes, Chapter 471.635, states:"Notwithstanding section 471.633, a governmental subdivision may regulate by reasonable, nondiscriminatory, and nonarbitrary I- zoning ordinances, the location of businesses where firearms are sold by a firearms dealer. For the purposes of tI1is section, a firearms dealer is a person who is federally licensed to sell firearms and a governmental subdivision is a entity described in sections 471.633 and 471.634". I However, all other regulation of firearms, except for the discharge of a firearm, is preempted by Minnesota State Statute, Chapter 471.633 (Exhibit A). I The Minnesota State Statutes would indicate that the regulation of gun shops by the City would be limited to: home occupation (permitted/not permitted), spacing between uses (gun shop to gun shop), and spacing to sensitive uses (churches, schools, day cares, etc.). In reviewing this topic, . Staff has found that very few cities regulate the location of gun shops. The City of Saint Paul did start the process of regulating the location of gun shops in 1993 and concluded the process in the Spring of 1995 (Exhibit B). I The Staff would like to discuss the possible implementation process, content, and the extent of I the proposed ordinance with the City Council at the worksession. I I I- I