Cannabis businesses permitted to engage in Retailer and Testing Laboratory activities are subject to the following zoning and locational requirements:
(a) The commercial cannabis business must be located on property in a zone pursuant to Title 9, Chapter 4, and must meet all of the requirements for development in that zone; and
(b) The property on which the commercial cannabis business is located must also meet all of the following distance requirements:
(1) It shall be no closer than six hundred (600) feet of any of the following:
(i) Any residentially used parcel as of the date the cannabis business permit is issued.
(ii) Any school providing instruction in kindergarten or any grades 1 through 12, whether public, private, or charter, including pre-school, transitional kindergarten, and K-12;
(iii) Any commercial daycare center licensed by the State or County that is in existence at the time the license is issued, unless the State licensing authority or the City specifies a different radius.
(iv) Any youth center that is in existence at the time the license is issued, unless the State licensing authority or the City specifies a different radius.
(2) The distance specified in this section shall be the horizontal distance measured in a straight line from the property line of the identified sensitive use to the front door of the medical cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider without regard to intervening structures, except as modified herein.
(3) The distance between a sensitive use and a medical cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider may be closer than six hundred (600) feet in the following situation:
(i) The commercial cannabis business and the sensitive use are separated by a freeway, with no direct pedestrian or vehicular access between the two uses.
(c) Notwithstanding the requirements of this section, a person authorized to make a Delivery in Thousand Oaks from a State-licensed Retailer located inside City of Thousand Oaks' jurisdiction may conduct such deliveries subject to a requirement that the person making the delivery maintains and controls all product as required for deliveries under State regulations, including a prohibition from storing any cannabis product in a dwelling, commercial office, storage facility, hotel room, motel room or any other structure in Thousand Oaks other than the approved Cannabis Retailer facility. Any delivery person completing scheduled deliveries as legally permitted by the State and the City of Thousand Oaks, must return the unsold product to the retail operator.
(§ 2, Ord. 1636-NS, eff. December 29, 2017, as amended by § 3, Ord. 1644-NS, eff. May 25, 2018, as amended by § 2, Ord. 1662-NS, eff. July 12, 2019, as amended by Part 4, Ord. 1673-NS, eff. February 14, 2020, and § 9, Ord. 1703-NS, eff. August 5, 2022)