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Consideration of Proposed Amendments to the City of San Leandro Zoning Code Article 3, Definitions; Article 6, Commercial and Professional Districts; and Article 7, Industrial Districts; involving updates to definitions and regulations of land uses involving Cannabis.
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION
The Planning Commission is requested to review and consider proposed amendments to the City's Zoning Code involving the regulation of cannabis. The purpose of the proposed changes are to 1) bring existing provisions of the Zoning Code into alignment with the Municipal Code and 2) enable two new conditionally-permitted land uses specific to the manufacturing and testing of cannabis products.
Staff recommends that the Planning Commission review the proposed amendments and recommend their approval to the City Council by approving Resolution 2016-007. The item is tentatively scheduled for City Council consideration on December 5, 2016.
BACKGROUND
Three assembly bills that passed in 2015 (Assembly Bills 243 and 266, and Senate Bill 643) established a new licensing and regulatory framework for medical cannabis as well as the new California Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation. The Bureau will be responsible for developing regulations and issuing licenses at the State level for the cultivation, manufacture, distribution, transportation, laboratory testing, and sale of medical cannabis. These state-level licenses will be issued in conjunction with local permits. With the recent passage of Proposition 64, it is anticipated that many of these state-level regulatory functions for the non-medical/adult use of cannabis will be merged with this same agency.
In light of this legislation and ballot Measure NN, which enables the City to tax cannabis businesses, staff is proposing to add two land uses to the Zoning Code that will accommodate the manufacturing and laboratory testing of cannabis products as a conditionally-permitted use in certain zoning districts.
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