In advance, the Town Council’s Community Planning and Economic Development Committee is beginning discussion of how to manage cannabis retail sale through zoning.
Dumais said staff has outlined potential options for the Council to consider through the mechanism of a zoning ordinance.
Two critical components of RERACA, Dumais said, are that if municipalities fail to adopt any zoning ordinances, then any business looking to open a cannabis retail spot in the community could theoretically do so in any zone where retail operations are permitted.
“If the community were to allow one of these classes of cannabis there is a financial component that comes back to the community,” Dumais said.
“I’d be reluctant to go anywhere near as far as we did previously pushing the restrictions to one neighborhood,” Wenograd said.
“I think doing nothing is an option I have eliminated,” he added, noting that allowing retail sale “as of right” would not be a good idea.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Cynthia Lauture advised the committee that RERACA also created stricter rules on smoking or vaping – of tobacco as well as cannabis – prohibiting smoking or vaping within 25 feet of a restaurant as well as within 25 feet of any doorway, operable window, or air intake vent of any public building.
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