Commercial cannabis businesses are permitted to engage in commercial cannabis activities subject to the following zoning and locational requirements:
(a) The commercial cannabis business must be located on property zoned CG (Commercial General), CG -2 (Commercial General-2), CG-3 (Commercial General -3), CR-2 (Commercial Regional-Downtown), CR-3 (Commercial-Tri-City- Club), CCS-1 (Central City South), CCS-2 (Central City), CH (Commercial Heavy), IL (Industrial Light), IH (Industrial Heavy), OIP (Office Industrial Park), or as such successor zones as may be created by the Mayor and City Council from time to time, and must meet all of the requirements for development in these zones; and
(b) The property on which the cannabis business is located must also meet all of the distance requirements listed below in subsections (b)(1)-(3), unless the Mayor and City Council adopt an ordinance allowing for a lesser distance. All distances shall be the horizontal distance measured in a straight line from exterior parcel line to exterior parcel line without regard to intervening structures, except as listed in subsection (b)(4).
(1) The parcel shall be no closer than six hundred (600) feet of any residentially zoned parcel in the City, the City's sphere of influence, a neighboring incorporated city, or unincorporated county.
(2) The parcel shall be no closer than six hundred (600) feet from any parcel in the City, the City's sphere of influence, a neighboring incorporated city, or unincorporated county containing any of the following:
A. A school providing instruction in kindergarten or any grades 1 through 12, (whether public, private, or charter, including pre-school, transitional kindergarten, and K-12) that is in existence at the time the permit is issued;
B. A commercial daycare center licensed by the City, another city, or County that is in existence at the time the permit is issued;
C. A youth center that is in existence at the time the permit is issued; or
D. A park that is in existence at the time the permit is issued.
(3) The City shall consider the proximity of the proposed commercial cannabis business to religious facilities and libraries in existence at the time the permit is granted when determining whether the issue the permit and any conditions thereto.
(4) For the purposes of this subsection (b), the distance measurement shall be without regard to intervening structures, with the exception of the following, in which case the distance measurement shall be the shortest path of travel around the listed intervening structures:
A. Freeways;
B. Flood control channels;
C. Railroads;
D. The Santa Ana River.
(c) Each proposed cannabis business project shall:
(1) Conform with the City's general plan, any applicable specific plans, master plans, and design requirements;
(2) Comply with all applicable zoning and related development standards;
(3) Be constructed in a manner that minimizes odors to surrounding uses, and promotes quality design and construction, and consistency with the surrounding properties;
(4) Be adequate in size and shape to accommodate the yards, walls, fences, parking and loading facilities, landscaping and all items required for the development;
(5) Be served by highways adequate in width and improved as necessary to carry the kind and quantity of traffic such use will generate; and
(6) Be provided with adequate electricity, sewage, disposal, water, fire protection and storm drain facilities for the intended purpose.
(Ord. MC-1519, 7-17-19; Ord. MC-1503, 9-05-18; Ord. MC-1464, 3-07-18)