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City Council Meeting Minutes December 17, 2013 Page 7 of 24 establishments. He read Ordinances No. 1648, 1649, and 1650, Series 2013 and Resolution No. 69, Series 2013. Mayor Muckle opened the public hearing and requested a staff presentation. Planner I Robinson reviewed Ordinance Nos. 1648, 1648 and 1650 and Resolution No. 69, Series 2013. • Ordinance No. 1648, Series 2013 loosens the moratorium to allow the existing stores, and only the existing stores, to convert to either retail marijuana stores or dual licensed premises. It also includes a section prohibiting either of the existing businesses from changing locations until at least 2015. • Ordinances No. 1649 and No.1650, Series 2013, implements the regulatory scheme and licensing requirements and includes a land use requirement, which follows the regulations of Medical Marijuana. • Resolution No.69, Series 2013 sets the fees for retail marijuana establishments in the City of Louisville. Included for Council consideration were five options submitted by the Boulder County Health Department intended to deter the use of marijuana products by the youth population. Those options are as follows: Option #1 would reduce how late stores may be open, from midnight to 7 pm, matching the allowed operating hours in both the City of Boulder and Boulder County. Option #2 would prohibit stores from selling any merchandise such as shirts with the store's name and logo. Marijuana and marijuana products would still be allowed to have the name and logo on packaging. Option #3 would require stores to use an electronic ID scanner to verify the age of all customers. Boulder County Health estimates electronic ID scanners would cost around $1,000. Option #4 would prohibit stores from giving away free marijuana or marijuana products for promotional purposes. Option #5 would prohibit stores from giving out coupons for discounts on marijuana or marijuana products Planner Robinson stated that tf the City Council desired to expressly extend the retail moratorium to marijuana businesses not specifically contemplated in Amendment 64, staff proposed second reading amendments to Ordinance No. 1648, Series 2013 to address such uses. Those businesses would include any business involved in cultivation, processing, preparing, manufacturing, storage, sale, testing, distribution, use