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PUBLIC HEARING - ZONING CODE TEXT AMENDMENT - TEMPORARY PLACEHOLDER BAN ON COMMERCIAL CULTIVATION OF MEDICAL CANNABIS - FILE NO. REZ15-007
BACKGROUND: On October 9, 2015, Governor Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 266, Assembly Bill 243, and Senate Bill 643, which together establish a framework for regulating medical marijuana. This item was prepared in response to a March 1, 2016 deadline stipulated in Assembly Bill 243 and provides the City with an opportunity to retain local control over medical cannabis cultivation by responding by the deadline. The proposal would add Chapter 20-46, titled Medical Cannabis Cultivation, to the Santa Rosa City Code to implement a temporary placeholder prohibition of commercial cultivation of medical cannabis until September 1, 2016, or until such time as the Legislature acts to eliminate the deadline to have a permissive local land use ordinance in place regarding commercial cultivation of marijuana. The prohibition would not apply to personal ...
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