A. Purpose and Applicability. This Section provides location and operational standards for smoke shops, including those selling e-cigarettes. The provisions in this Section shall apply to smoke shops where allowed in compliance with Article 2 (Zones, Allowable Uses, and Development and Design Standards) and the following standards.
B. Applicable Provisions and Prohibitions.
1. Prohibited Locations. No smoke shop shall be located within an 800-foot radius of another smoke shop or any sensitive use as defined in Article 9 (Definitions), disregarding the corporate boundary of the City, and as measured in compliance with Subparagraph 2 (Measurement of distance), below.
2. Measurement of Distance. The distance between a smoke shop and a sensitive use or another smoke shop shall be made in a straight line, without regard to the intervening structures or objects, from the closest exterior wall of the structure, or a portion of the structure, in which the smoke shop is located, to the property line of the parcel on which the structure, or portion of the structure, in which the sensitive use or another smoke shop occurs or is located.
3. Accessory Use. A smoke shop is not and shall not be approved as an accessory use to any other use allowed in compliance with Article 2 (Zones, Allowable Uses, and Development and Design Standards). (Ord. 935 § 3 (part), 2015)