TO: Mayor and Commission AGENDA DATE: 4/7/2025
FROM: City Manager AGENDA ITEM: 8 - D
SUBJECT:
Title
Public Hearing - Request for approval of Ordinance No. 07-2025, amending Article XIV, “Medical Marijuana Dispensaries”, by updating the title to “Pharmacy, Drugstores, and Medical Marijuana Dispensaries” and incorporate updates from the Florida Statutes, including provisions for the purpose, location, standards, and approval process, at first reading.
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LOCATION:
Citywide.
COST:
N/A
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
N/A
ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT:
Planning and Development Services.
POTENTIAL MOTION:
Recommendation
“I hereby move to approve Ordinance No. 07-2025, amending Article XIV in the City’s Land Development Code, at first reading.”
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BACKGROUND:
Background
In 2018, the Florida Legislature enacted legislation that pre-empted the regulation of cultivation and processing of marijuana to the State thereby leaving local governments little authority as to such matter. The legislation allows local governments to ban medical marijuana treatment centers dispensing facilities, however if a local government does not ban dispensing facilities it may not play any restrictions on the number of facilities allowed within its jurisdictional limits and may not adopt any regulations for facilities that are more restrictive than its ordinances regulating pharmacies. To be consistent with Florida Statue, the proposed changes in Ordinance No. 07-2025 are, incorporating pharmacies and drug stores into the section, providing definitions, location regulations, and a major conditional use process. Staff has added a 500-foot distance requirement from all schools, house of worships, parks, and any religious institution and 1,500 buffer of another pharmacy, drug store or medical marijuana dispensary facility.
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