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City Council Meeting Minutes October 20,2009 Page 14 of 15 COUNCIL COMMENTS Councilor Dalton clarified the moratorium is not on the two businesses operating in the City. The moratorium is for any new businesses who wish to operate medical marijuana dispensaries in the City of Louisville. Mayor Sisk explained the City is trying to find a logical basis for which medical marijuana dispensaries can be regulated. The City recognizes property rights of the two individuals who have opened medical marijuana dispensaries. The moratorium is only until May 15, 2010 and will allow the City to look at the various scenarios. He asked the public to work with the City of Louisville. Councilor Muckle stressed the City is not closing the two operating businesses, but waiting for guidance for the state legislators or the health department relative to regulating medical marijuana dispensaries. PUBLIC COMMENTS Jeremy De Pinto, 1162 CE~dar Street, Broomfield, CO presented seven copies of a report entitled "Encoura~lin~1 the Economic Development of Medical Cannabis Businesses in Colorado", which was written by the Cannabis Therapy Institute. Mayor Sisk closed the public hearing. MOTION: Mayor Pro Tem Marsella moved to approve Ordinance No. 1561, Series 2009 with the follovvin~l amendments: The addition of the words grow and produce to Section 6 and with direction to City Staff to issue letters to existing businesses that are in conformance with their invested rights, seconded by Councilor Clabots. City Attorney Light offered a friendly amendment that all the second reading amendments to the ordinance be included in the motion, and in Section 6 the definition be revised to add "use of any property or structure to sell, distribute, produce, grow, transmit, glive or dispense marijuana" and to Section 9 the following phase be added: "pursuant to the foregoing it is determined herein, the restriction shall not apply to Compassionate Pain Management located at 1116 Dillon Road, Suite 7, or Altermed, LLC at 1115 W. Dillon Road #3, as such developments and uses existed as of October 20, 2009. City Manager Fleming asked City Attorney Light how Section 9 and Section 2 would affect Staff's ability to deal with the two existing businesses in Louisville. City Attorney Light explained the language revision in Section 9 provides the restriction in Section 2, prohibiting certificate of occupancies, shall not apply to the two existing businesses.