Title
Staff Report for an Ordinance Amending Zoning Code Article 3, Definitions; Article 6, Commercial and Professional Districts; Article 7, Industrial Districts; and Article 16, Non-Residential Districts, Involving Updates to Definitions and Regulations Enabling Cannabis Product Manufacturing and Laboratories, and a Resolution Adding Title 5, Chapter 6 to the Administrative Code to identify a pilot program for Cannabis Product Manufacturing applications.
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff requests the City Council consider a proposed Ordinance to enable Cannabis Product Manufacturing and Laboratories and a concurrent Resolution containing Administrative Code provisions for a new pilot program for Cannabis Product Manufacturing applications. The purpose of the proposed changes are to enable cannabis manufacturing and cannabis testing laboratories as conditionally permitted uses and to establish a pilot program placing limitations on the total number of cannabis manufacturing use permits allowed. Staff and the Planning Commission recommend City Council approval of the proposed ordinance. Staff also recommends City Council approval of the proposed Resolution to amend the Administrative Code.
BACKGROUND
Three assembly bills that passed in 2015 (Assembly Bills 243 and 266, and Senate Bill 643) established the state-level licensing and regulatory framework for medical cannabis as well as the new California Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation. The Bureau is responsible for developing regulations and issuing licenses at the State level for the cultivation, manufacture, distribution, laboratory testing, and public sale of medical cannabis. Following the passage of the Adult Use of Marijuana Act as part of the November 2016 ballot, this state agency will be charged with regulating non-medical cannabis businesses as well. All businesses involving the use of cannabis will be required to obtain both a City permit and a State license in order to operate. T...
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