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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — APRIL 14, 2025 12 Mayor Grant said that is where the specificity of a motion and council is a good thing. Councilmember Weber said the conditional use guidelines are clearly written out. There are a couple of options. One is just calling it retail. Second is the conditional use path that we have in B-4. It wouldn't change. It would just be applying it to the two other districts. He supports sending it the Planning Commission like that. He supports making a decision here. He doesn't understand why this direction can't be given at a Work Session. Things come out of a Work Session and they move down the line. That's what this meeting is for. Mayor Grant said this meeting is for Staff, applicants, specialists and consultants to present to us to educate us on the topics. It's not designed to take the place of the Council meeting. If we were to do a CUP, Council should decide what the conditions are, rather than giving it to the Planning Commission. Councilmember Monson said Council has regularly given Staff direction. Particularly if there is consensus. We should ask Staff if we have given enough guidelines to move this to Planning Commission or if they want an additional work session. It will have to go to Planning Commission because it's an ordinance change. City Administrator Jagoe said Council can give direction to prepare either for Work Session or Planning Commission. Staff can break out the different types of thrift stores, large or small scale, stand alone. Staff can work with the information gathered today and work with existing criteria to create some additional standards to help create those categories. Council just needs to direct where the information will be presented. Councilmember Rousseau thinks we should send it to Planning Commission. She also thinks the Odds and Ends deadline should be extended for an additional 30-days. Mayor Grant doesn't think the owner is moving, anyway. He would like Council to review the staff recommendations. He would want to know what the CUP guidelines are before they go to Planning Commission, rather than letting the Planning Commission create it and send it back. Councilmember Weber said there is no time limit if this goes to Planning Commission. This can be a back and forth with the Planning Commission. We aren't up against any deadline. As for deferring action for Odds and Ends, he has requested 30-days beyond the final decision for a hard closure. Councilmember Monson said we haven't made a decision on the land use. Councilmember Weber said at that point, we would have made a decision. At that point, enforcement would be 30 days out. Send it to the Planning Commission. Councilmember Holden said she is the elected official. She was elected, not the Planning Commission. She would like it to come before Council to make the decisions we want. She doesn't know what the definitions are going to be. Maybe Council has a different opinion than what the Planning Commission does. Council recessed the work session at 6:57 pm.