Tom Last, community development director, said the fee for a prospective cannabis businesses would be $4,631.
Diana Gamzon, executive director of the Nevada County Cannabis Alliance, spoke to council during the Zoom broadcast of the meeting.
“Four thousand six hundred dollars is an expensive lottery ticket for a business that is not guaranteed to be a selected applicant,“ Gamzon said in an email.
Because not every applicant can be selected, she said it would be far less costly to pay the initial fee.
Ivy said later that he’s not against a fee or creating a commercial cannabis industry.
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