Report Prepared by: Kim Espinosa, Planning Manager, Development Services Department, and Kenneth Rozell, Senior Deputy City Attorney, City Attorney's Office
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SUBJECT: Zoning Ordinance Amendment #16-02 regarding Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Deliveries, and Cultivation for Qualified Patients
REPORT IN BRIEF
Consider adoption of an ordinance to establish regulations for medical marijuana dispensaries, deliveries, and cultivation for qualified patients.
RECOMMENDATION
City Council - Adopt a motion approving one of the following options:
A. Adopt a Negative Declaration and Introduce Ordinance 2463 (as recommended by the Planning Commission) that would allow medical marijuana dispensaries in the Professional/Commercial Office (C-O), Light Industrial (I-L) and Heavy Industrial (I-H) zones with a conditional use permit; allow delivery of medical marijuana under specific circumstances; and allow limited growth, indoors only, of medical marijuana (6 plants or less per lot) for a qualified patient:
"An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Merced, California, Amending Chapter 20.84, "Medical Marijuana and Cultivation" and amending Sections 20.20.040 "Conditional Uses," 20.34.040 "Conditional Uses," and 20.36.040 "Conditional Uses," of the Merced Municipal Code regarding the zoning of medical marijuana dispensaries as conditional uses".
OR
B. Adopt a Negative Declaration and Introduce Ordinance 2464 (as directed by the City Council on April 20, 2016, and originally presented to the Planning Commission on May 18, 2016) that would allow medical marijuana dispensaries in the Professional/Commercial Office (C-O) zone with a conditional use permit; allow delivery of medical marijuana under specific circumstances; and allow limited growth of medical marijuana (12 immature or 6 mature plants or less per lot) for a qualified patient under specific circumstances:
"An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Merced, California, Amending Chapter 20.84, "M...
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