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Request to Continue: Time, Place and Manner Regulations for Marijuana Businesses and Personal Cultivation (Planning File LE-16-0001) to September 21, 2016
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RECOMMENDED ACTION (Motion):
Continue Planning file LE 16-0001 and the first reading of Time, Place and Manner Regulations for Marijuana Businesses and Personal Cultivation for Ordinance No. 16-1008 to September 21, 2016.
BACKGROUND:
At the public hearing on August 17, 2016 the City Commission reviewed and resolved several outstanding questions related to the proposed marijuana regulations. The issues that the commission resolved were:
Whether to require a 1000' buffer from Clackamas Community College for marijuana retailers (Yes).
Whether to require a 250' buffer from from public parks, licensed child care and day care facilities, and public transit centers for marijuana retailers (Yes).
Whether to require 1000’ separation between marijuana retailers (Yes).
Whether to include code language to allow outdoor temporary ingress and egress of vehicles, persons and materials associated with the permitted marijuana use (Yes).
Whether to require personal cultivation of marijuana be indoors (Yes).
The final remaining issue for the City Commission to decide is whether or not to allow marijuana retail use in the Canemah National Register Historic District. Staff has contacted the Canemah Neighborhood Association for their feedback on this issue and the neighborhood association has agreed to review the matter and provide written comment into the record at the next meeting.
The proposed regulations will go into effect if and when the voters of Oregon City decide to lift the current ban on marijuana activities put in place by Ordinance 15-1017.