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BOULDER CO — Boulder County residents can chime in Tuesday morning about where they think medical marijuana businesses should be allowed to operate in the unincorporated areas outside the county’s cities and towns — if anywhere at all.
The Board of County Commissioners will hold a 9:30 a.m. public hearing and may take action Tuesday on proposed Land Use Code amendments that impose new regulations on such businesses.
Medical marijuana centers — businesses that sell, grow or distribute medical marijuana — wouldn’t be banned in unincorporated Boulder County under the proposed regulations.
The county commissioners could impose a ban under a measure passed by the Legislature last month that is awaiting Gov. Bill Ritter’s signature.
Instead of a ban, the new county regulations would restrict where marijuana dispensaries and growing facilities legally could be located in unincorporated parts of the county. They’d be allowed in business, commercial, light industrial, general industrial and transitional zoning districts.
A property occupied by a medical marijuana center couldn’t be closer than 1,000 feet to the nearest boundary of a property occupied by an alcohol or drug treatment facility, a licensed child-care facility or an educational facility with students below college level.
A medical marijuana center’s property line couldn’t be closer than 500 feet to another medical marijuana center’s property line.
County Land Use director Dale Case has noted that, to the extent allowed by state law, medical marijuana still could be grown and used by state-registered patients in their own homes — and could be grown in the homes of registered patient caregivers, as an “accessory home occupation.”
Businesses making certain types of medical marijuana products — such as drinks, baked goods, oils and skin creams — would be confined to industrial zoning districts.
Boulder County Planning Commission members, after hearing from both medical marijuana advocates and opponents, voted 5-1 on May 19 to endorse the Land Use Code medical marijuana amendments and to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners adopt them.
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Source: Longmont Times
Contact: Longmont Times
Copyright: 2010 Longmont Times-Call
Website: http://www.timescall.com/news_story.asp?ID=22313
The Board of County Commissioners will hold a 9:30 a.m. public hearing and may take action Tuesday on proposed Land Use Code amendments that impose new regulations on such businesses.
Medical marijuana centers — businesses that sell, grow or distribute medical marijuana — wouldn’t be banned in unincorporated Boulder County under the proposed regulations.
The county commissioners could impose a ban under a measure passed by the Legislature last month that is awaiting Gov. Bill Ritter’s signature.
Instead of a ban, the new county regulations would restrict where marijuana dispensaries and growing facilities legally could be located in unincorporated parts of the county. They’d be allowed in business, commercial, light industrial, general industrial and transitional zoning districts.
A property occupied by a medical marijuana center couldn’t be closer than 1,000 feet to the nearest boundary of a property occupied by an alcohol or drug treatment facility, a licensed child-care facility or an educational facility with students below college level.
A medical marijuana center’s property line couldn’t be closer than 500 feet to another medical marijuana center’s property line.
County Land Use director Dale Case has noted that, to the extent allowed by state law, medical marijuana still could be grown and used by state-registered patients in their own homes — and could be grown in the homes of registered patient caregivers, as an “accessory home occupation.”
Businesses making certain types of medical marijuana products — such as drinks, baked goods, oils and skin creams — would be confined to industrial zoning districts.
Boulder County Planning Commission members, after hearing from both medical marijuana advocates and opponents, voted 5-1 on May 19 to endorse the Land Use Code medical marijuana amendments and to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners adopt them.
News Forum: rollitup.org
Source: Longmont Times
Contact: Longmont Times
Copyright: 2010 Longmont Times-Call
Website: http://www.timescall.com/news_story.asp?ID=22313