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The San Diego City Council on Monday will consider an ordinance aimed at reining in the 125 medical marijuana dispensaries operating in the city.
As it is, no dispensaries are permitted under the city's zoning code.
But medical marijuana activists have been urging the council to approve a set of rules and zoning regulations since June, just after the county approved its rules for dispensaries, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Only two pot shops have been closed, but operators are worried about their future.
"There's a lot of confusion right now," Frederick Aidan Remick, the director for the Association of Clinical Dispensaries, told the Union-Tribune.
Most of the collectives were initially cited for violations such as improper electrical wiring or walls built without a construction permit.
Remick said the dispensary he's involved with, the Higher Healing Patient's Association, received a notice that it violated a few building codes, and should shut down.
But when he and his partners consulted their lawyer, who told him to just fix the violations and keep moving on, the Union-Tribune reported.
If the City Council can agree on an ordinance, the draft would be forwarded to the planning commission, then come back to council for final approval, the newspaper reported.
City officials said it could be early 2011 before an ordinance is in place.
The ordinance is expected to restrict dispensaries to commercial or industrial areas and prohibit them from operating within 1,000 feet of schools, parks and other places where children are likely to be found.
Operators also would need to show that the businesses are being run as nonprofits.
NewsHawk: MedicalNeed: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: 10news.com
Contact: Contact 10News
Copyright: 2010 by City News Service
Website:Measure Restricting Pot Dispensaries To Be Considered
As it is, no dispensaries are permitted under the city's zoning code.
But medical marijuana activists have been urging the council to approve a set of rules and zoning regulations since June, just after the county approved its rules for dispensaries, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Only two pot shops have been closed, but operators are worried about their future.
"There's a lot of confusion right now," Frederick Aidan Remick, the director for the Association of Clinical Dispensaries, told the Union-Tribune.
Most of the collectives were initially cited for violations such as improper electrical wiring or walls built without a construction permit.
Remick said the dispensary he's involved with, the Higher Healing Patient's Association, received a notice that it violated a few building codes, and should shut down.
But when he and his partners consulted their lawyer, who told him to just fix the violations and keep moving on, the Union-Tribune reported.
If the City Council can agree on an ordinance, the draft would be forwarded to the planning commission, then come back to council for final approval, the newspaper reported.
City officials said it could be early 2011 before an ordinance is in place.
The ordinance is expected to restrict dispensaries to commercial or industrial areas and prohibit them from operating within 1,000 feet of schools, parks and other places where children are likely to be found.
Operators also would need to show that the businesses are being run as nonprofits.
NewsHawk: MedicalNeed: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: 10news.com
Contact: Contact 10News
Copyright: 2010 by City News Service
Website:Measure Restricting Pot Dispensaries To Be Considered
