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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Approved: November 24, 2025 <br /> <br />CITY OF ARDEN HILLS, MINNESOTA <br />CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION <br />OCTOBER 27, 2025 <br />IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE EDA MEETING- ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL <br />CHAMBERS <br /> <br /> <br />CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL <br /> <br />Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, Mayor Grant called to order the City Council <br />Work Session at 5:45 p.m. <br /> <br />Present: Mayor David Grant; Councilmembers Brenda Holden, Tena Monson, <br />Emily Rousseau and Kurt Weber <br /> <br /> Absent: None <br /> <br /> Also present: City Administrator Jessica Jagoe, Public Works Director/City Engineer <br />David Swearingen, Community Development Director Jake Reilly and Assistant to the <br />City Administrator/City Clerk Julie Hanson <br /> <br /> <br />1. PUBLIC INQUIRIES/INFORMATIONAL <br /> <br />None. <br /> <br />2. RESPONSE TO PUBLIC INQUIRIES <br /> <br />None. <br /> <br />3. AGENDA ITEMS <br /> <br />A. Cannabis Distribution Concept Plan <br /> <br />Community Development Director Reilly introduced the applicant Brandon Champeau with <br />Hempel Real Estate and Chuck Button with Portal Warehousing. <br /> <br />Community Development Director Reilly said the land use application is a concept plan review <br />to use approximately half of the building that houses Portal Warehousing and implement a similar <br />model with individual spaces for wholesalers or warehousers. This would be a new use in <br />Minnesota relating to recreational adult use cannabis. This would serve as a wholesaling site for <br />up to two cannabis wholesalers. It is a business to business model where already packaged