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Planning Commission Worksession - Marijuana Regulations (Planning File LE-16-0001)
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RECOMMENDED ACTION (Motion):
Work Session.
BACKGROUND:
Staff has completed the first work session draft of time, place and manner regulations for marijuana businesses (attached). The code revisions are based on extensive public outreach, staff research, and input from a variety of sources including the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, League of Oregon Cities, reviews of various other muncipal regulations, and City Attorney legal analysis.
At the worksession, staff will present the results of the public outreach, surveys and mapping that will illustrate how the regulations will be implemented in the various zones. Revisions to each of the zone districts clearly indicate whether marijuana businesses will be prohibited, permitted or subject to existing use limitations. Staff will supplement the workession information with a matrix to explain how certain OLCC rules and regulations already govern aspects of marijuana business at the state level.
Please refer to the Marijuana Business Zoning Quick Reference Table for a summary of how each of the five types of marijuana businesses will be regulated in the various zone districts. A copy of the official zoning map of Oregon City is attached for reference.
The principal new code section that contains operational and site standards will be OCMC 17.54.110. The proposed code will treat medical and recreational marijuana businesses similary.
Marijuana production (i.e. "grows") will be only be permitted in the GI - General Industrial Zone.
Retail uses and dispensaries, as proposed, are prohibited:
- Within 250 feet of any public parks, licensed child care and day care facilities, and public transit centers.
- Within 1000 feet of a public, private or parochial elementary and secondary school.
- Abutting a residential zone unless the zone that permits the retail use or dispensary abuts a freeway, expressway, major arterial,...
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