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Staff Report for an Ordinance to Amend 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 RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff requests that the City Council consider the proposed ordinance to amend Zoning Code provisions updating definitions and regulations involving 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 and the Planning Commission recommend City Council approval of the proposed ordinance.
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 local approval of ballot Measure NN, which enables the City of San Leandro to tax up to 10% of the gross receipts of cannabis businesses, the proposed amendments will add new land uses to the Zoning Code to accommodate the manufacturing and laboratory testing of cannabis products as a conditionally-permitted use in certain zoning districts.
The proposed amendments will also bring the Zoning Code into alignment ...
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