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Public Hearing - Application #PL2019-194 - Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Amendment #8 - Medical Marijuana affecting the following ordinance sections - Article 6 Use Standards - Division I General Provisions and Division II Uses Permitted with Conditions, Article 8 Site Standards - Division I Design Standards- Subdivision 6 Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, Article 15 Rules of Interpretation and Definitions- Division II Definitions ; City of Lee's Summit, applicant.
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Issue/Request:
An amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance, Chapter 33 LSMO Code of Ordinances, pertaining to Medical Marijuana.
Background:
On November 6, 2018, the voters of the State of Missouri approved Amendment 2 legalizing medical marijuana in the State. The new constitutional provisions took effect on December 6, 2018. These provisions impact multiple departments and activities of the City, including: zoning, building codes, law enforcement/prosecution, and business license. The law provides that the State Department of Health has 240 days from the effective date of the provision to establish rules and begin accepting applications for the various types of business activities related to the legalization provisions. The Council approved, on November 20, 2018, a resolution for an administrative delay, to allow the City to integrate any rules the State would promulgate related to medical marijuana into our own code. State regulations meant to augment Amendment 2 were finalized on June 3, 2019.
On June 12, 2019, a draft UDO amendment was presented to the Community and Economic Development Committee (CEDC). After a staff presentation and public testimony, the CEDC voted unanimously to send the ordinance to the Planning Commission.
Staff crafted the UDO amendments with the presumption of City Council wanting the tightest regulations allowed by state statute. Amendment 2 is unusual in that constitutional language is typically brief and regulations are prom...
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