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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — JULY 14, 2025 9 Councilmember Holden asked if we will get more information to determine if we want to take it off the list. Councilmember Rousseau would like more clarification about why this use is there. Councilmember Weber said it exists now. This isn't a change. City Administrator Jagoe will verify if there are any existing in the City today. Council discussion moved to the accessory uses on the table. City Administrator Jagoe said she still has the feedback from Council's previous discussion regarding Home Occupation, Class I and Class 2. That one will come back. Councilmember Holden asked what Day care, group or family means. City Administrator Jagoe said they would not be allowed as an accessory use to something else. All accessory uses need to have a principal use first. Councilmember Holden asked if a manufacturing company could put in a daycare like Land O Lakes has. City Administrator Jagoe replied if you're a Manufacturing and Processing, Class I and you wanted to do a family daycare of 10 or less, you can't. That accessory use is not allowed in the Industrial Districts. Councilmember Holden said she has an issue with a major business not being allowed to have a daycare center for their employees. Councilmember Rousseau asked if Land O Lakes built today and wanted to put in New Horizons, they wouldn't be able to? City Administrator Jagoe said it's part of the PUD. The daycare is open to the public, not just Land O Lakes employees. It is a stand-alone principal use. There is two uses going on there. There is a PUD for the two uses on the one site. Councilmember Rousseau said that recently changed when they came in and did that sign. Before it was strictly for Land O Lakes employees. Boston Scientific also has a daycare strictly for Boston Scientific employees. She is not in favor of restricting other businesses from developing their own daycare. City Administrator Jagoe summarized she is hearing Council say to look at the ordinance language so if a business wants a daycare within their facility, servicing just their employees, we want to find a mechanism to allow that. Councilmember Holden asked if that would cover churches, too? Discussion ensued regarding churches and colleges that have daycare facilities.