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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — OCTOBER 13, 2025 15 Councilmember Monson asked if we are supposed to assume revenues from our permits or is that supposed to cover the administrative costs of issuing the permit. Presumably we wouldn't be eating into our revenues on an annual basis. City Administrator Jagoe said moving from conditional use permits to permitted there will be no application for land use. Councilmember Monson said that would also eliminate the Staff time needed. Community Development Director Reilly said permit fees don't cover Staff time. Ms. Trapp moved to nurseries. This is focused on the principal use being a commercial nursery. The recent experience was a residential property growing plants and selling them on their property. That would be an accessory use. Is this something we want to be proactive about. Councilmember Holden said this wouldn't be cannabis. Trapp confirmed. She said land is very valuable here and she doesn't think anyone is going to buy land just to do a nursery. Ms. Trapp said this is about if someone can convert a yard to grow and sell plants. Is this something we want to address? A conditional use permit is an option. Councilmember Weber asked what the issue if it's already allowed by conditional use. Ms. Trapp said that was for principal use. There is nothing covering accessory uses. Councilmember Monson would move to table that for a later conversation. City Administrator Jagoe said today it is a conditional use in our residential district. It doesn't specify if it's principal or accessory. Ms. Trapp moved to development standards. She said currently the development standards related to architecture are only for B-2 and B-3. Is that what we want? Discussion ensued regarding what architectural standards currently exist and what options there are. Councilmember Rousseau asked about a neighborhood business. Ms. Trapp said that's not in there. Councilmember Rousseau said we would want to talk about that. She wants to explore what that could mean for those spaces. Councilmember Holden said it is important to have high standards for architecture. If you make it nice and put money into it, it will last a long time. Councilmember Monson asked Ms. Trapp if this feels appropriate or if she thinks we should expand it.