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Page 5 of 6 <br />1. Council may direct staff to consider other possible alternatives to present to Council <br />at a later date. <br /> <br />2. Council may choose not to adopt the proposed interim urgency ordinance, <br />potentially resulting in the state Department of Food and Agriculture becoming the <br />sole licensing authority for marijuana cultivation applicants in Redwood City as of <br />March 1, 2016. <br /> <br />3. Council may choose to include a carve-out for small scale personal cultivation by <br />adding the following language to Section 3(A) of the proposed interim ordinance: <br /> <br />“The prohibition against marijuana cultivation facilities, however, shall not apply to a qualified <br />patient cultivating marijuana/cannabis pursuant to Section 11362.5 and the Guidelines for the <br />Security and Non-Diversion of Marijuana Grown for Medical Use promulgated by the California <br />Attorney General under the following circumstances: <br /> <br />1. The patient maintains no more than 6 mature or 12 immature marijuana/cannabis <br />plants; and <br /> <br />2. The patient cultivates marijuana/cannabis for his or her personal medical use and <br />does not sell, distribute, donate, transmit, or provide marijuana/cannabis to any other person or <br />entity; and <br /> <br />3. The property on which the qualified patient is cultivating marijuana/cannabis has no <br />more than 100 square feet devoted to the cultivation of marijuana /cannabis by any qualified <br />patient or combination of qualified patients (the area used to cultivate marijuana/cannabis shall be <br />measured by the aggregate area of vegetative growth of live marijuana plants on the premises). <br /> <br />Notwithstanding this exception, a qualified patient cultivating marijuana may not create or cause a <br />nuisance condition and the city may abate, in any m anner permitted by law, a nuisance condition <br />created or caused by, associated with, or arising from marijuana cultivation by a qualified patient.” <br /> <br />4. Council may choose to prohibit medical marijuana deliveries by inserting the <br />following language as Section 3(C) of the proposed interim ordinance. <br /> <br />“No person and/or entity may deliver or transport medical marijuana from any fixed or mobile <br />location, either inside or outside the city, to any person in the city.” <br /> <br />(Current Sections 3(C) and 3(D) would then be renumbered as 3(D) and 3(E).) <br /> <br /> <br />FISCAL IMPACT <br />None. <br /> <br />9.A. - Page 5