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Zoning and Land Use <br />Buffer Guidelines (342.13) <br />State law does not restrict how a local government conducts its zoning designations for <br />cannabis businesses, except that they may prohibit the operation of a cannabis business <br />within 1,000 feet of a school, or 500 feet of a day care, residential treatment facility, or <br />an attraction within a public park that is regularly used by minors, including playgrounds <br />and athletic fields. <br />Zoning Guidelines <br />While each locality conducts its zoning differently, a few themes have emerged across the <br />country. For example, cannabis manufacturing facilities are often placed in industrial <br />zones, while cannabis retailers are typically found in commercial/retail zones. Cannabis <br />retail facilities align with general retail establishments and are prohibited from allowing <br />consumption or use onsite, and are also required to have plans to prevent the visibility of <br />cannabis and hemp-derived products to individuals outside the retail location. Industrial <br />hemp is an agricultural product, and should be zoned as such. <br />Cannabis businesses should be zoned under existing zoning ordinances in accordance with <br />the license type or endorsed activities held by the cannabis business. Note that certain <br />types of licenses may be able to perform multiple activities which may have different <br />zoning analogues. In the same way municipalities may zone a microbrewery that <br />predominately sells directly to onsite consumers differently than a microbrewery that sells <br />packaged beer to retailers and restaurants, so too might a municipality wish to zone two <br />microbusinesses based on the actual activities that each business is undertaking. Table 1, <br />included on Pages 13 and 14, explains the types of activities that cannabis businesses might <br />undertake, as well as, some recommended existing zoning categories. <br />Page 12