[0:10] order roll
call you here Ryan Matson
[0:17] here here Steiner
here uh Brett pic
[0:25] here hey pled Allegiance
[0:31] I pledge aliance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[0:36] Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and
[0:43] justice for
[0:49] all approve the
[0:53] agenda you said we could strike public
hearing yes yeah uh just a placeholder
[1:02] any other thing to
add anybody else no any motion to
[1:08] approve the uh agenda I'll make that
motion sorry
[1:15] motion Brian second by jod discussion
all in favor signify by saying I oppos
[1:23] motion carried approval of minutes from
our February meeting
[1:39] I got a typo on that first uh motion up
there the minutes I'll keep that fixed
[2:20] second no second Brian discussion all in
favor signify by saying I
[2:32] and then we go on to new business the
Cannabis ordinance introduction yes uh
[2:38] right so in the uh the city's effort to
kind of um you know well I mean I guess
[2:44] let me back up the
the the city can't say no if someone
[2:50] wants to come in with cannabis business
they can't and in order to
[2:57] um so right if we can't say no we you
know we can't control it so to control
[3:02] it we have to have an ordinance so uh I
was talking with sourcewell and they
[3:07] sent me a bunch of different cities
ordinances and um like everywhere in
[3:13] Minnesota everything's just a little bit
different uh some cities will
[3:16] incorporate their ordinance into their
land use but just the the amount of
[3:22] changes that are are kind of happening
around cannabis it it it's it's good
[3:26] just to have its own Standalone
ordinance so that's um what I did uh I
[3:31] uh I took this one from uh Emily and uh
Emily
[3:36] Minnesota uh they're about same size as
us and they have pretty much the same
[3:44] kind of uh City layout as well so um
really what I want you know the
[3:50] commission's um you know thoughts on is
if we uh can kind of page ahead here
[3:58] to um
3.2 zoning and land use um I'd like the
[4:06] uh the commission's thoughts on where
the should be now our actual land use
[4:11] ordinance says a th000 feet from a
school and then 500 feet from basically
[4:18] Public public areas um and places where
miners are now our ordinance doesn't
[4:25] doesn't specify exactly what that 500 ft
is for but I believe the the spirit of
[4:30] the ordinance is that is for the
consumption of cannabis
[4:35] not you know other things however um
just given the the feet distance uh I
[4:42] really am only going to propose the C2
District which is uh the highway
[4:46] commercial which you can see uh just
south of Spirit Lake there uh it's that
[4:52] darker pink be where Monaga Marine wases
that area yes and then we have also the
[4:58] industrial district as well now uh I
have all of that already baked in here
[5:03] uh you'll notice under
cultivation um you know there's indoor
[5:07] and outdoor use uh for manufacturer
obviously that would all be
[5:12] indoor um and then uh another
interesting point when it comes to
[5:17] signage they would just fall
under um what our land use ordinance
[5:22] says about it which is uh they they lay
out the specifics in there
[5:39] it it absolutely is pretty basic so I
mean I figure cultivation so you're
[5:44] you're you're growing the Cannabis um
you know if you want to do that next to
[5:48] the highway we're you know I I would
recommend maybe having that just
[5:53] indoors um
and yeah okay fence it something uh and
[6:00] then you know in the industrial district
well you know okay go ahead
[6:07] um and then
uh what's another one manufacturer
[6:15] so you know industrial district Highway
commercial okay uh if you want to create
[6:24] your you know products you want to
consume um you know wholesale
[6:31] again Highway commercial industrial
cannabis retail so if you want to sell
[6:37] you know just have your your stand if
you will again
[6:41] um yeah I Optics wise
um is that something that everyone wants
[6:48] to see coming into town I don't
know um or just again limit that just to
[6:55] Industrial you know just something to
think about uh cannabis Transportation
[7:01] uh honestly I think that could almost go
anywhere because if it's just being
[7:07] transported or they have a you know
Distribution Center I mean you're never
[7:12] going to see it it's just going from A
to
[7:14] B um cannabis
delivery um and then all their cannabis
[7:22] business license by uh not licensed by
the state I'll just limit that to again
[7:27] Highway commercial and
[7:31] industrial this is an ordinance do we
have to have a public comment on this uh
[7:36] yes there will be a public hearing for
it yeah and it'll just go through the
[7:40] whole timeline just like uh we did for
the land news so are we going to hold
[7:44] the hearing in or the council or uh well
I believe it's to the council yeah I
[7:50] believe the it's the council's intention
to hold the public hearing for these and
[7:54] then to to really look at these and kind
of really discuss them um
[8:01] you know I I wanted to bring it here
first and just hear your thoughts when
[8:05] before I bring it up uh this is this is
on the agenda for the 10th so uh you
[8:10] know whatever recommendations uh are
made here tonight I'll I'll put those in
[8:15] and uh there'll just be further talking
[8:23] points anyone have any comments on there
that you want to bring up or I
[8:28] personally would like to see
[8:31] out not down where the kids are or the
schools
[8:37] or that's what these are these are all
out yeah yeah yeah and I mean let me uh
[8:43] my whole thought con because I you know
it's Optics right to um yeah basically
[8:49] here and then industrial district that
theol on that man uh the school would
[8:58] be full
yeah and even then so I think we
[9:03] probably cutting it really close if
someone was going to set up a business
[9:06] right
here um and then again all these permits
[9:11] are conditional use so we're going to
have leverage to really like you have to
[9:16] you have to bring us a plan and we have
to examine it and approve it it's not
[9:20] just going to be a hey I bought some
land and growing
[9:23] weed so this is going to be a deliberate
process
[9:30] this has been through Emily's legal and
whatnot right yeah and that's kind of
[9:33] one of the other great advantages is um
you know their document you know it
[9:38] already went for public hearing and uh
really other than just some cosmetic
[9:43] changes and then tailoring it just to
managa uh really it's um you know they
[9:50] saved us a lot of a lot of work and
probably a good chunk of
[9:55] money all the verbage come straight from
there correct
[10:08] it sounds like we have a pretty good
thumb on days yeah well that's the whole
[10:13] intent we can't like said we can't say
no but we can
[10:20] sayead of it before somebody does decide
to move into
[10:24] town and I mean anything's possible um
you know I
[10:29] I mean so far I think I've gotten one
call and just a couple emails about it
[10:33] and I and I really think that they're
just they're really fishing and they're
[10:37] just throwing out a huge net just to see
you know what are cities doing and then
[10:42] what's the reasonable expectation you
know and if someone wants to come here
[10:46] and you know they want to set up a shop
in the industrial district okay that's
[10:49] great their their vehicles are filling
up at our gas stations they're shopping
[10:53] at our grocery stores you know they're
spending money in town and you know I
[10:58] think it's it's a it's a net win
um and let's be honest uh you hear way
[11:05] more drunk driving accidents than you do
driving high and I mean is you know
[11:11] whatever the appetite morality is about
it it it's good for the city bring in
[11:15] business
[11:22] so just like are okay on it then or yeah
yeah you're okay and then any comments
[11:27] you have like uh you know especially
like for cultivation I mean you know
[11:32] because I I just I plugged it in what I
thought made sense all right and that's
[11:35] just what Brett thought all right so uh
if you have an opinion about something
[11:40] or you feel strongly about like hey I
don't want wholesale you know on 71 we
[11:45] should just limit that to the indust
then yeah I mean those kind of comments
[11:48] I'm looking for for
sure well I don't want I don't want to
[11:52] limit them if they do come into town you
know I don't want to limit their
[11:56] exposure either if a business comes in
to make money they're going want some
[11:59] Highway exposure so they might want to
do that Highway commercial there so that
[12:03] their sign is right out there where
people are going by I don't have the
[12:06] issue with
that like you've got that as indoor for
[12:10] cultivation so that wouldn't be Big
Field that growing there in the
[12:14] industrial park nobody sees
it I don't have I think you've got a
[12:18] pretty good handle on it here it looks
to me in my
[12:24] opinion and so and so you said that in
any case if someone wants to set up this
[12:30] business it would be a conditional use
everything is conditional use
[12:34] yes guess I don't objection to
[12:40] it wasn't your talk I'm time know about
the liquor stores on these so uh the the
[12:47] difference and this is actually coming
up on the uh the 10th as well is the
[12:52] liquor store wants to sell Edibles and
the the drinkable
[12:57] THC I I am not a connoisseur nor an
enjoyer so I can't give you the
[13:02] specifics but what I do know is it's
relatively cheap to buy into the markup
[13:07] is fantastic and we get some of that tax
back as well and you know we're a pretty
[13:12] popular place in the summertime we have
one of the best disc golf courses in the
[13:16] region it's only going to get better you
know we're going to start attracting you
[13:20] significantly more people and we you
know we already get at least one or two
[13:23] calls a day with the campsites filling
up and you know they do come to the
[13:28] liquor store that's where they go and
purchase their their Beverages and they
[13:32] do frequently ask if we sell THC
products and you know we well we don't
[13:38] and what do they do well they drive down
to wena or drive up to Park Rapids
[13:42] whatever their poison is so why why not
have it here for them to spend their
[13:46] money on maret C stuff and I think it's
I think it's 20% of the tax get back yep
[13:53] that's I was wondering even even
like um this thing here if they sell
[13:59] there would be a tax on that or city
gain anything from that or yes same deal
[14:03] I think that's same thing on this is
[14:08] 20% yeah I think we might as well be
ready for it I think but you're talking
[14:13] Edibles now what are you talking
cannabis specifically this is for um
[14:19] Edibles are like gummy oh gummy bears
yeah gummies are the drinks are just a
[14:24] drink like a beer cam yeah and they just
got THC and CBD in them they sell them U
[14:31] 71 bottles in park rabbit sells them
I've been up there looked they sell a
[14:36] lot Dorset corner there they sell
it and they're
[14:43] making some of that stuff's 120%
[14:48] markup our chunk of it that's that's
really that's kind of our thoughts yeah
[14:54] we're always asking Heather to find a
way to make more money like taxes down
[15:02] so it sounds like nobody's against it
Brian no I'm
[15:08] well so would you want to like a motion
from us or just an agreement or just
[15:13] just an agreement yeah a consensus yeah
a consensus would be great and U you
[15:18] know when uh Monday happens I'm just
going to say like hey uh you know we
[15:23] went brought this to the Planning
Commission they looked at it they and
[15:28] you know again I'm going to explain to
the council like a lot of the language
[15:31] in here it it's just not going to change
at all so the the things that we can
[15:35] influence are where do we put it and I'm
gonna just try to leave that same
[15:39] discussion say Planning Commission just
you know uh has consensus that the
[15:44] locations where we want to put this is
acceptable well if there are any
[15:47] problems Amy's the one that's going to
end up with the problems right well this
[15:52] I mean be but it's very it's less
problems than alcohol by a long R okay
[15:59] everywhere I mean I don't do either
so the other thing is if if they're high
[16:07] on cannabis is it as recognizable by the
law enforcement as oh yeah it is okay
[16:14] they have the driving out the influence
isn't just for alcohol it's influence of
[16:17] anything right so they can they've got
all the do they have like a breath rizer
[16:22] test or something not not for that they
do a field test and then you do a blood
[16:26] test I would
it won't show up on a breath
[16:33] tou H I've been out of the drug game for
we long L well yeah I guess I don't know
[16:38] either you know I just uh was curious I
guess more than anything you want me to
[16:44] um yeah I can I can reach out to Amy and
you know it wouldn't hurt yeah uh okay
[16:51] I'm pretty sure that's all the you know
it's the same deal but she would know
[16:54] for sure and it would be good just to
know just looking you know firsthand
[17:00] experience on you know what it's like to
T
[17:24] okay changed yeah the thing is you know
the more this becomes available and
[17:31] stuff the more it might come similar to
to alcohol now you
[17:36] know well I I mean just another
perspective right you know Minnesota's
[17:40] like what one of just a few states that
that has it completely legal I mean it's
[17:44] federally it's still an offense I mean
if the FED show up they could just say
[17:48] well yeah nope it's IL
[17:56] legal I mean I'm gu guessing right but I
don't think they would do that no they
[18:01] don't mess with the states pretty
[18:07] much wadina County hasn't done theirs
yet don't I have to check again I know
[18:13] we thought about waiting but how long
you wait right the county to do
[18:17] something grabits did theirs two months
ago neas did theirs the same time so
[18:22] they're getting ahead of it said they're
all relatively the same though yeah it's
[18:26] it's a typical yeah
just to control it since you can't say
[18:31] no we just have to be able to control
[18:37] it okay well I think the consensus is it
we're okay with it I guess okay uh if
[18:43] you think of anything between now and
Monday uh something comes to your head
[18:47] please email me your thoughts uh I'll uh
I'll send this to Amy and then uh I'll
[18:52] send an email out to you guys tomorrow
with with her response
[19:00] anything else under new business I guess
we didn't add
[19:04] anything no old
business uh no we don't have any permits
[19:09] we're still waiting uh I I I think we're
gonna probably start seeing some trickle
[19:14] in here as the thaw happens um still
waiting on Mr uh rennenberg uh he did
[19:21] bring me a u uh a lot split that works
perfectly instead of just having it
[19:27] split three ways it's just just uh two
Lots now and they they work uh I mean
[19:34] yes
yeah
[19:38] sorry U so I mean I think I'm I'm
comfortable just approving it and I'll
[19:42] bring it in after the fact um it meets
all the
[19:46] minimums by good margins there's no way
they do it for three ways
[19:56] no are those rles
yeah and that's the he's the one cabin
[20:03] wants to do a contract with deed oh so
he had to get the property right because
[20:07] the property line actually went through
the middle of that second cabin so they
[20:12] had to get it straightened
[20:17] out is anything happen happening I can't
talk today on
[20:22] shingles whole place up there the
Marine oh the Marine yeah the is Jon
[20:30] Funk
bought
[20:34] the storage units but I don't know if
anybody's bought that front building yet
[20:38] that's separate that actual Monaga
Marine building is separate I don't if
[20:42] anybody's bought that yet I know they
had
[20:45] people know if that switched hands yet
or not is he going to use it for storage
[20:50] do you know yeah he called me I got a
camper out there and he called me and
[20:54] gave me the rates and introduced himself
and whatnot so it'll continue us Storage
[20:59] storage camper
[21:08] storage just for you guys to think about
there's a obviously a housing shortage
[21:14] in this town like most we're trying to
I'm kicking around ideas trying to come
[21:19] up with anything we can to find a way to
encourage some development and I
[21:24] certainly don't have all the answers and
I don't know what all we can do I'm just
[21:27] looking for any ideas anything that
could work like what I think it was
[21:33] Mills they sold some city property City
lots to Developers for a
[21:39] dollar with the condition that they had
to have a house structure built on it
[21:43] within a year so then it brings tax base
right do so we've got some city land
[21:49] that's just sitting
and doing nothing where's that we got
[21:54] the old softball fields out at Southgate
there it's actually split into three
[21:58] Lots it's kind of a weird deal but it's
11 something Acres of High Ground there
[22:02] I think that's imp possible because it's
got water and sewer stubbed right to it
[22:07] already it'd be a very simple
development for
[22:09] [Music]
people and Thena development Corp I
[22:13] guess is kind of around doing something
with their property but they want the
[22:17] city to foot the bill on all the on all
the utilities which can I'm just I just
[22:24] want everybody to start thinking about
anything any ways that we can think of
[22:28] to encourage somebody to come in and
build some housing and see I mean
[22:34] apparently there's a lot of people that
want to live here and they can't find
[22:38] house nothing there's nothing for sale
hardly well would those end up being uh
[22:43] residential lots or commercial Lots or
well right now it's in the industrial
[22:46] park but there's a there's a residential
right in front of it to the south side
[22:51] of that paral is residential house and
then there's those three lots and then
[22:57] there's Minnesota Power
I think Minnesota Power has their little
[23:01] substation section there so it wouldn't
be hard we we did last year we kicked
[23:08] one of those industrial lots
for Shafer yeah we
[23:16] resal I don't nobody's beating their
door down to come and put anything in
[23:20] that industrial
park that's maybe somebody comes up with
[23:25] a better idea yeah yeah just I'm just
trying to get some ideas from anybody I
[23:31] can possibly you know just could be a
crazy idea we'll take them all and we'll
[23:36] see what stuck see if we can make
anything work but water and sewer is up
[23:40] to yeah right now for those we already
had a hydrant out there when it was a
[23:45] softball field we had a bathroom in that
we had a bathroom in that one building I
[23:49] think I thought we had old Wells out
there too I know we I think we just
[23:52] capped them uh last summer but I know
there's a I think Ron said there's a
[23:57] 4inch water man that's stubs right to
that property and the sewers right there
[24:01] going down the road too so yes for a
developer it would be very inexpensive
[24:06] to to put something in out
there it's just a matter owns the pallet
[24:11] lot out there now
uh that's still I don't know look at my
[24:18] onx H it'll tell
me I looked that up
[24:24] once is
that see
[24:30] quali and poo polio used to own it I
think yeah
[24:35] that's that has
changed I think Kevin eov had that other
[24:41] corner there he's got a house on the
corner of it and
[24:45] then he's got a big lot out there Roger
Roger Le they used to have that deal out
[24:51] there that's a I think that's his now it
does the trucking there gous truck there
[25:12] on
[25:23] onine what that say right there Murphy
Thomas and glad
[25:29] still Tom and GL glattus still owns it
though I know they had had it and then
[25:35] that next lot was safer that we turned
to residential yeah GL us come into that
[25:41] hearing when we had that hearing for
that I think she sold
[25:47] that I we' have to look on GIS but these
are these are usually pretty up to
[25:54] date well there's still stuff out there
yeah well it's just basically it's just
[25:59] that old slab there's an old concrete
slab
[26:02] there few things laying around but it's
it's pretty well cleaned
[26:08] up but I we haven't had
any anybody trying to come in and put a
[26:13] business in for a long
time we're not we're not in the greatest
[26:17] area for that we just don't have the
right Corridor for
[26:22] transportation but I just thought if you
guys yeah think of any ear open or
[26:27] whatever way to encourage
[26:33] it tax base more tax base means less
taxes
[26:43] per is rberg done out there now or is he
still adding yeah he'll still add as he
[26:50] sells they kind of build one and sell it
or some of it they actually sell a lot
[26:56] first and then people build he's got
plans for all the way around that whole
[27:01] golf course
but that's so who
[27:07] knows I can't afford a house out
[27:12] there yeah I think that's more weired
for the elderly isn't it than the people
[27:18] kids out there too are there yeah
they're not going older very
[27:23] well the kids that are out
there well could you imagine and raising
[27:28] kids and you have no lot at
all two 10 ft out of your thing it's
[27:34] your property line you know
[27:50] yeah next
meeting I believe the next meeting is uh
[28:02] uh that would be uh April 3 April 3rd
[28:19] yes for
yes another a couple
[28:25] permits I think I think we might
[28:31] yeah I mean provided we don't have
winter coming back and oh it does out
[28:44] here can tell it's getting closer first
day of spring though because when I come
[28:49] come east the sun's right in my eyes
evening 5:00 pm is working good for
[28:56] everybody
this very comfortable time yeah I think
[28:59] it works good it work for you oh yeah
absolutely uh I'm going to stay late
[29:04] tonight for the uh First Responders I
haven't been to one of their meetings
[29:08] yet so I'm just going to sit in the back
and see what's going
[29:14] on I get a lot of work done when it's
really quiet here it's great yeah nobody
[29:19] calling nobody's
calling yeah
[29:30] the I'll make the motion I'll
second all in favor signif by saying I
[29:41] close it is
[29:45] 529 Council me that
quick a good chairman