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8.A. - Page 2 of 15 <br />• Phase 1 (Completed): In November 2017, the City Council adopted a Zoning Code amendment <br />regulating personal cultivation of cannabis and banning commercial cannabis -related activities <br />including commercial cultivation, manufacturing, testing, retail, and distribution, except for <br />deliveries of medicinal and adult use cannabis by cannabis retailers located outside Redwood City. <br />This step maintained local land use control and allowed City staff more time to analyze other <br />potential allowed uses. <br />• Phase 2 (Completed): Delivery operators who may be delivering cannabis products in the City <br />were notified that they needed to obtain a business license and pay the business license tax. <br />Cannabis regulatory fees to offset staff costs involved with permitting and regulating cannabis <br />activity and regulations associated with deliveries were developed in Phase 2 and adopted in <br />Phase 3. <br />• Phase 3 (Completed): The City Council adopted regulations to allow cannabis delivery from non - <br />storefront retail (i.e. delivery only) facilities located in the City and to allow cannabis nurseries. <br />Non -storefront retail facilities are permitted by right in the Industrial Restricted (IR), Light <br />Industrial Incubator (LII), Industrial Park (IP), and General Industrial (GI) and conditionally <br />permitted in the Commercial Office (CO) zoning districts. Indoor nurseries are conditionally <br />permitted in the CO, IR, LII, IP, and GI zoning districts. All commercial cannabis activity is subject <br />to the minimum distance requirements of 600 feet from certain uses as well as requiring a <br />Cannabis Business Permit pursuant to Municipal Code Chapter 32, Article V, Division 7. <br />Furthermore, the City Council placed a cannabis tax measure on the November 6, 2018 <br />Gubernatorial Election Ballot. The tax measure was approved by 78.69% of Redwood City voters. <br />• Phase 4 (Current): Consideration of policy and program recommendations to allow retail <br />storefront (walk in) cannabis businesses to operate in designated zoning districts of the City. <br />Staff have developed five questions to guide the City Council's discussion: <br />1) Should the City permit up to six cannabis retail storefront businesses? <br />2) Should cannabis retail storefront businesses be permitted to conduct delivery services as <br />part of their cannabis business permit? <br />3) Should cannabis storefront retailers be permitted in all zoning districts allowing general <br />retail? <br />4) Should retail storefront cannabis businesses be subject to the same City requirements <br />established for non -storefront retail cannabis businesses? <br />5) Should retail storefront cannabis business applications be processed using a merit -based <br />application process conducted by staff, or should the City Council be involved in the final <br />decision or any appeal? <br />Page 2 of 11 <br />City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.org <br />155 <br />