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Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the Interim City Manager or Designee to Execute Amendment No. 2 to the Industrial Waste Connection MOU with Michael/David Winery (ED)
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MEETING DATE:
June 17, 2026
PREPARED BY:
Luis Aguilar, Economic Development Director
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Adopt a resolution authorizing the Interim City Manager or Designee to execute Amendment No. 2 to the Industrial Waste Connection MOU with Michael/David Winery.
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
On October, 18 2006, the City entered into an Industrial Waste Connection MOU with Michael/David Winery, LLC to allow for the winery to truck in their industrial effluent to the City’s Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant as a business attraction incentive to support downtown revitalization.
Amendment No. 1 of the MOU was made and entered on February 28, 2014 to delete the time and year restriction in paragraph 2b of the MOU.
The MOU included a condition that the winery establish and maintain a downtown tasting room. At that time, the MOU’s definition for “Downtown Lodi” used the boundary bounded by Church Street, Lodi Avenue, Pacific Railroad, and Lockeford Street. The tasting room was established as Cellardoor, (a collaboration by Van Ruiten Winery and Michael David Winery) at 21 N School Street.
The City Council has since adopted a Downtown Specific Plan. The Downtown Specific Plan area generally extends from Lodi Avenue to the south, Lockeford Street to the north, Pleasant Avenue to the west, and Washington Street to the east. The plan area reflects an expanded downtown geography and includes the historic downtown core and extends east of the Union Pacific Railroad corridor to Main Street, consistent with City's recent expansion of the Downtown Mixed Use (DMU) zoning district.
The winery is in the process of relocating its tasting room to the corner of Elm and Main Street. Because the MOU requires the tasting room to be located within the defined “Downtown Lodi”, the winery requested an amendment to the section of the MOU that defines Downtown Lodi to reflect the expanded Downtown Specific Plan area. This allows the tasting room to remain compliant while maintaining all other requirements as outlined in the original MOU and Amendment No. 1.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Not applicable.
FUNDING AVAILABLE:
Not applicable.