A validly licensed marijuana use may be sited in the city of Long Beach subject to the following:
A. Marijuana Producer, Processor, Or Researcher: A state licensed marijuana producer, processor, or researcher may be located as a conditional use in the L1 (light industrial) and C2 (commercial retail warehouse) zoning districts but is prohibited in all other zoning districts. The property on which the producer, processor, or research facility is located shall be a minimum of two hundred feet (200') from the nearest property on which a residential land use is located.
B. Marijuana Retailer: A state licensed marijuana retailer may be located as a conditional use in the C1 (commercial) and RC (residential commercial) zoning districts but is prohibited in all other zoning districts. A proposed retail business shall not be located on or immediately adjacent to (sharing a property line with or directly across the street from) a parcel on which a residential land use is located.
C. Cooperative: A state registered cooperative may be located as a conditional use in the R1 (single-family residential), R1R (single-family residential restricted), S1 (shoreline single- family residential), RC (residential commercial), C1 (commercial), C2 (commercial retail warehouse), and L1 (light industrial) zoning districts but is prohibited in all other zoning districts.
D. Additional Buffer Zones:
1. No marijuana use shall be established on a parcel located within one thousand feet (1,000') of a parcel on which any existing state licensed marijuana retailer is located.
2. No state licensed marijuana producer, processor, retailer, or researcher shall be established within one thousand feet (1,000') of a parcel on which any of the following uses is located: elementary school; secondary school; or playground.
3. No state licensed marijuana producer, processor, retailer, or researcher shall be established within one hundred feet (100') of a parcel on which any of the following uses is located: childcare center; library; public park; public transit center; church; game arcade; amusement; recreation center or facility; residential treatment facility; or juvenile group home.
4. No state registered cooperative shall be located within one thousand feet (1,000') of a parcel on which any of the following uses is located: elementary school; secondary school; or playground.
5. No state registered cooperative shall be located within one hundred feet (100') of a parcel on which any of the following uses is located: childcare center; library; public park; public transit center; church; game arcade; amusement; recreation center or facility; residential treatment facility; or juvenile group home.
6. A state registered cooperative must be twenty feet (20') or more from any occupied legal residential structure located on a separate parcel or from any residential accessory structure used primarily by children, for example a playhouse, measured from the nearest exterior wall of the structure where the cooperative's operations occur to the nearest exterior wall of the residential structure or residential accessory structure.
7. For a state registered cooperative located in a mobile home park, the structure where the cooperative operates must be within twenty feet (20') of an occupied mobile home, measured from nearest exterior wall of the structure where the cooperative's operations occur to the nearest exterior wall of the mobile home;
8. No state registered cooperative or state licensed marijuana producer, processor, or researcher can be located within one hundred feet (100') of Pacific Highway, measured from nearest property line to nearest right of way line.
9. Unless otherwise stated, the distance shall be measured in the most direct route over or across public walks, streets, or other public passageways between the property lines of the location of the marijuana use and the property lines of the location of the sensitive land use(s) that are nearest one another. The city shall rely upon its sensitive land uses map, adopted by reference herein and as amended in the future, to determine whether a proposed marijuana use is located within one thousand feet (1,000') or one hundred feet (100') of a sensitive land use, except city personnel may also take into account uses or other changes that have occurred since the sensitive land uses map was most recently updated. (Ord. 931, 10-3-2016)