Business Retention and Development Committee Agenda and Packet 2019 02 04

Home Browse Search

11: City,/ im Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 CITY COUNCIL COMMUNICATION AGENDA ITEM 8C SUBJECT: DATE: PRESENTED BY: ORDINANCE NO. 1769, SERIES 2019 — AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLES 5 AND 17 OF THE LOUISVILLE MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING MEDICAL AND RETAIL MARIJUANA BUSINESSES — 1ST READING, SET PUBLIC HEARING 2/5/19 JANUARY 8, 2019 ROB ZUCCARO, PLANNING & BUILDING SAFETY DIRECTOR MEREDYTH MUTH, CITY CLERK MEGAN DAVIS, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER SUMMARY: Ordinance 1769, Series 2019 includes several amendments to Titles 5 and 17 of the Municipal Code related to medical and retail marijuana businesses (see Attachment 1). The following is a summary of the primary amendments included in the ordinance: • Eliminates the limit of four total retail marijuana stores in the City. • Revises the spacing requirements between facilities. Currently there is a 1,320- foot spacing requirement between medical marijuana stores. There is no spacing requirement for retail marijuana stores. The ordinance includes a 1,500- foot spacing requirement for both retail and medical marijuana stores. • Decreases the buffer requirement between a marijuana store and a public or private elementary, middle, junior high or high school from 1,320 to 500 feet. • Eliminates the buffer requirement between a marijuana store and a public playground or outdoor pool; an outdoor education facility serving children; an alcohol or drug treatment facility; the principal campus of a college, university, or seminary; or a residential childcare facility. • Increases the allowed area of a medical and retail marijuana store (or combined medical/retail store) up to 5,000 square feet. The current municipal code limits medical stores to 1,800 square feet, limits retail stores to 2,000 square feet and limits a combined medical/retail store to 3,800 square feet. • Allows medical marijuana stores as a use by right in the Community Commercial (C-C) zone district (Downtown excluded), in addition to the current allowance in Commercial Business (C-B). This matches the current allowance for retail marijuana businesses. • Allows medical marijuana testing facilities as a use by right in the Industrial (I) zone district and as a special review use in the Commercial Business (C-B), Business Office (B-O) and Administrative Office (A-O) zone districts. This matches the current allowance for retail marijuana testing facilities. CITY COUNCIL COMMUNICATION