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3 <br /> <br />Staff have proposed an additional caveat that the retail sale of cannabis cannot be co-located with any <br />residences. <br /> <br />Non-Retail Activities <br />The proposed amendment to Chapter 906 – Industrial Districts, would allow all other types of <br />Cannabis uses (cultivation, manufacturing, wholesaler, etc.) to occur as an interim use in the following <br />zoning districts <br /> <br />1. I-1 – Limited Industrial <br /> <br />The I-1 District is where the city’s older industrial facilities are and is generally a further distance from <br />residential users than the I-2 zoned properties. The proposed ordinance has added an additional <br />requirement that no such use can be adjacent to a residentially-zoned property or nonconforming <br />residential use. <br /> <br />Interim Use <br />The proposed ordinance has all types of cannabis uses allowed as interim uses. This provides the City a <br />slightly higher-level of discretion on specific locations however, most applicants will likely meet the <br />standards to be approved. The benefit of making cannabis an interim use is not necessarily in having <br />discretion to “choose” an applicant but in the ability to hold nuisance businesses accountable. Staff are <br />working on an additional ordinance to add Interim Use Permits back into our zoning code as they were <br />removed in the 2021 Code update. <br /> <br />Buffers <br />At their work meeting, the City Council was supportive of 500’ buffers from all State-permitted places: <br />1. Schools <br />2. Daycares <br />3. Parks with an item for minor attraction <br />4. Residential treatment facilities. <br /> <br />The 500’ foot buffers would provide for a good number of eligible locations in the City while ensuring <br />that cannabis uses would not be proximate to these places. <br /> <br />Competing Applicant Scoring <br />Under OCM guideline, the City is only provided with 30 days to respond to a retail registration <br />application. If the applicant meets the relevant standards, we are not permitted to deny them. To avoid <br />the process of retail registration being solely first-come-first-serve, Staff have created a process to <br />allow other interested cannabis retail businesses to submit within a fifteen (15) day window of the first <br />submittal. Staff have established the following scoring system (Section 827.070, Page 5 of Attachment <br />1): <br /> <br />C. Scoring. Should more than one (1) application be received within the review period, City Staff will <br />review the applications and assign scores based on the criteria provided in this Section. <br />1. Applicants will receive one (1) point for each of the following standards that they meet: <br />(a) If the proposed location will only be used for the retail sale of cannabis. <br />(b) If the proposed location is zoned I-1 – Limited Industrial.