City Council
MEETING DATE: 2/8/2017
TITLE:
Title
Amend Cathedral City Municipal Code Chapters 9.108, 9.26, 9.28, 9.30, 9.36, 9.38, 9.40 and 9.42 Related to Medical Cannabis (ZOA 16-003).
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FROM:
Pat Milos, Community Development Director
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Approve second reading, by title only, Zone Amendment No 16-003, an Ordinance of the City Council of Cathedral City, California, Amending Chapters 9.108, 9.26, 9.28, 9.30, 9.36, 9.38, 9.40 and 9.42 of the Cathedral City Municipal Code Relating to Medical Cannabis.
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BACKGROUND:
At its meeting on August 24, 2016, the City Council held a work study session on further amendments to the City's ordinances regulating Medical Cannabis Businesses, including the Zoning Ordinance. Specifically, the Council considered whether to allow medical cannabis testing laboratories and medical cannabis transportation and distribution sites. The direction from the City Council was to allow testing laboratories by right (i.e. without a Conditional Use Permit) in those zones where similar laboratories are permitted. The direction from the City Council as to transportation and distribution sites was to allow those uses with a Conditional Use Permit from the Planning Commission in similar zones to where cultivation and manufacturing are currently conditionally permitted. In addition, the City Council had given direction to amend the CBP-2 zone to include Manufacturing Sites as conditionally permitted in that zone.
The City's special legal counsel with respect to medical cannabis issues, Vicente Sederberg, prepared the proposed ordinance implementing the direction received from the City Council.
On December 7, 2016, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on the draft ordinance, but had questions that staff was unable to answer. The Commission continued the hearing to January 18, 2017, and staff arranged to have Mr. Jordan Wellington from Vicente Sederberg attend the continued hearing to answe...
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