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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION—OCTOBER 14, 2024 11 Interim City Administrator Jagoe confirmed. When you get into the manufacturing, we cannot prohibit. Mayor Grant asked if one brewery had THC options would satisfy the retail component. Interim City Administrator Jagoe confirmed. That would be the one retail business. Mayor Grant asked if it could be a big box store selling nothing except weed. Interim City Administrator Jagoe confirmed. Councilmember Rousseau asked if allowing the one retail location in the B-2 district, would restrict a cannabis testing center or an R&D facility. Interim City Administrator Jagoe said the way it is drafted in the land use table, all the uses are a conditional use, similar to the low potency. The zoning ordinance says these are allowed through the conditional use process, so it would go before the Planning Commission and the City Council. The next step would be the number of registrations allowed. We followed similar patterns for retail and manufacturing components. This essentially mirrors the traditional retail and manufacturing zoning districts. So if any manufacturing is allowed, cannabis would now be allowed by conditional use. Councilmember Fabel thought if we wanted to keep cannabis off County Road E or Lexington, we could do that by modifying the zoning, essentially zoning them out of the main streets. He'd like to do that. Mayor Grant said that could be done by using and overlay. He said that we must allow one retail business based on City population and wondered if we are allowed to limit the number of retailers. Interim City Administrator Jagoe confirmed. The City is required to allow at least one and can limit it to just one. Mayor Grant asked if Council would like to limit the retail businesses to just one. Council agreed. Councilmember Rousseau said she would be interested in a business that does the potency testing, rather than a traditional retail location. Mayor Grant said a testing facility wouldn't satisfy the one retail registration component. Interim City Administrator Jagoe confirmed. She said we can't prohibit them but we can be selective about which zoning district they are allowed in. Councilmember Rousseau asked if we can put a cap on it.