The Zoning Table will be amended as follows:

Article XXIV. Zoning Table

Land Use Category

R-1 R-2 R-3 R-4 R-5 R-6 R-7 C-1 C-2 HD C S1 PUD/S DD

30 Medical marijuana dispensary facility

P P P P Medical marijuana cultivation facility

C C C Medical marijuana manufacturing facility

C C C Medical marijuana testing facility

P P P

IMPACT

The proposed amendment outlines some protective measures to mitigate potential impacts to surrounding land uses, including a distance separation requirement from schools, places of worship and child care facilities of 200 feet, which is consistent with the current code requirement limiting the location of liquor stores. It also includes requirements for odor control, visibility of the product from the street, age limits of patrons, packaging and consumption, and limits on the hours of operation. Security plans are required to be submitted for staff review to ensure surveillance is provided, inventory is secured, alarm systems are in place and emergency contacts are provided. There is also a requirement for a facility operator to be licensed by the State of Missouri and the city and upon application for a business license, a requirement to provide operational plans, including floor plans and odor control mechanisms. Given those requirements, staff does not anticipate negative impacts associated with the proposed text amendments. Additional amendments to the City Code (non-land use related) will also be required.

STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE TEXT AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 405 (ZONING REGULATIONS) OF THE CITY’S LAND USE CODE TO THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN AS PROPOSED.”

DIRECTOR SUSAN M. ISTENES The way our zoning is laid out in the city and when you plug in churches and schools – the bigger the distances the more possibilities you eliminate. Its not our intent to eliminate possibilities and we don’t look at it as a bad use or incompatible use. I think were pretty comfortable with the 200ft buffer because that is consistent with what we do for alcohol.

Brian Maguire – I spend a lot of my professional career in Denver and it’s not doing good things for Denver, it makes me concerned.

Richard Lintz – I don’t see an upside nor a downside but I think we should increase the distance, based on what we heard from the public. I also don’t think we need to encourage having 5 dispensaries in our little town. It doesn’t makes sense to me so maybe cap it at 2. So I would increase the distance knowing it will mitigate the number. I can

So I would increase the distance knowing it will mitigate the number. I can

31 see Clayton Road by St. Mary’s being a reasonable spot so it would have to be 500 feet in order to include that. I think that’s the limit.

Ron Reim – If we did that we would likely have 2 max. The communities around us might have different views though.

Susan Istenes – I believe a lot are using CUPs.

CHAIRMAN LICHTENFELD – We have a staff recommendation to recommend approval to the Board of Aldermen

PUBLIC COMMENTS:

MATT GEEKIE – The things that we are talking about here can lead Clayton down a path where we have homeless on the steps of Graybar like we did in New York before we left in 1982 and that’s not a good thing for citizens. We have offices everywhere in the US and San Francisco has one of the highest homeless populations in the country, do you really want to bring those problems here. I think the things we’ve talked about here are unnecessary. I don’t think the state requires every municipality to have pot or medical marijuana dispensaries. Do we really want to change the ambiance of what makes clayton so special by adding what we’ve been talking about tonight? Clayton is a family friendly environment. Passage of this will not help that at all. We may not see it today but we will see it in the future.

Richard Lintz – I’m not sure I believe in the domino effect so to speak. And I think we can regulate any future recreational uses and I do know there is a real medical need for marijuana. It is a real thing and I’m not against them. I think we only need one or two and we can keep it under control.

Brian Maguire – I think we should have a CUP process requirement for all types of uses. I can’t see the harm in requiring that.

Ron Reim – So a CUP, 500 ft, and 3 maximum?

Various Commission members agree

RON REIM – MOTION TO APPROVE WITH MODIFICATION, THAT THE DISTANCE BE 500 FEET, ALL FACILITIES WILL REQUIRE A CUP AND THE MAX NUMBER IN THE CITY WILL BE THREE.

RICHARD LINTZ – SECOND

ALL BUT BRIAN – AYE

BRIAN MAGUIRE – NAY

HAVING NO FURTHER BUSINESS BEFORE THE COMMISSION, THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 9:10 (21:10).

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