§ 116.10 LOCATION, BUFFERING, DISPERSION, AND ZONING REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDICAL MARIHUANA PROVISIONING CENTERS AND MARIHUANA RETAILERS.
   (A)   No medical marihuana provisioning center or marihuana retailer shall be located within:
      (1)   Five-hundred feet of an operational school, including pre-kindergarten that is located within a school; or
      (2)   Three-hundred-fifty feet, of the following buffered uses: Public parks; a commercial child care organization (non-home occupation) that is required to be licensed or registered with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, or its successor agency; a church; a facility at which substance use disorder prevention services or substance use disorder treatment and rehabilitation services and those terms are defined in the Mental Health Code, PA 258 of 1974, M.C.L.A. §§ 330.1001 et seq., or another medical marihuana provisioning center or marihuana retailer.
   (B)   Medical marihuana provisioning centers and marihuana retailers shall be separated by a 350 feet distance between them in Area B as described and designated and provided in the Zoning Ordinance provisions.
   (C)   No medical marihuana provisioning center or marihuana retailer shall be located within another business except as permitted by the Marijuana Regulatory Agency.
   (D)   For the purpose of calculating the buffering and dispersion requirements of this section, the distance shall be measured along the center line of the street or streets of address between two fixed points on the center line determined by projecting straight lines, at right angles to the center line, from the part of the buffered use nearest to the contemplated location of the marihuana operation and from the part of the contemplated location nearest to the buffered use. The distances from the marihuana operation to the point on the centerline and from the buffered use to the point on the centerline shall be included in the calculation. For medical marihuana provisioning centers and marihuana retailers located within a commercial strip mall or retail center the measurement shall be from the property line of the medical marihuana provisioning center and marihuana retailer to the property line of a buffered use.
   (E)   No marihuana operation shall be located in a no-zoned area or in an area subject to an agreement entered into pursuant to Public Act 425 of 1984.
(Ord. 2022-01, passed 4-25-2022)