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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — OCTOBER 27, 2025 6 Mayor Grant said the businesses coming in will need to follow regulations. They may need to work with tenants to meet state codes. Mr. Button said they will make sure any business is compliant. Councilmember Monson asked if the applicant would need a CUP update every time they change tenants. Community Development Director Reilly said no. Right now they are saying they can have up to two. If they wanted to have three or four or five, they would have to come back to change that condition. Discussion ensued regarding a CUP doesn't restrict the ability to place tenants of any kind. It was clarified that this pertains to the cannabis tenants only. Mr. Champeau wanted to clarify they are not limiting their concept to only two users. They are seeking to allow 57,000 square feet to be allowed for warehousing cannabis. That may be two tenants, it could be eight. Community Development Director Reilly asked Council if they have a number in mind about how many individual business enterprises in that amount of space is too many. Councilmember Weber said there are guidelines. The rules are the rules, no matter how many tenants are in there. The State's intent with the OCM is to normalize cannabis, which will reduce the likelihood of black-market sales and gets rid of the stigma. It shouldn't be treated as a different use because it's cannabis. It is a warehousing use. He wants to see the space used. Councilmember Holden said there was staff at the previous business who accepted packages. Will there be anyone accepting packages for this new use. Mr. Button said the property manager is there to accept packages and deliveries, except when it is something like this. The property manager would contact the employee or owner and have that person come to the receiving area to sign for the delivery. Councilmember Holden asked if the 30 employees discussed earlier would be new employees working in this 57,000 square feet. Mr. Button confirmed. Councilmember Holden said they aren't assuming there will be just one or two. Mr. Button confirmed. He said a big operation like this would be a team of 5-15, factoring in different shifts. Mayor Grant said he understands growers may package their product but don't want to store it. This could be a grower's own distribution warehouse. The grower will have its own customer base. This is a warehousing service. He assumes a grower wouldn't want to grow and store the final product on the same site.