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Workshop on a Proposed Ordinance Amending the Alameda Municipal Code by Repealing Section 30-5.15 (Medical Dispensaries and Cultivation) of the Alameda Municipal Code in its Entirety; Adding a New Article XVI (Cannabis Businesses); Adding a new Section 30-10 (Cannabis); and Amending Sections 24-11 (Smoking Prohibitions in Places of Employment and Unenclosed Public Places) and 24-12 (Smoking Prohibitions in Housing).
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To: Honorable Mayor and
Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach
City Manager
Date: September 5, 2017
Re: Workshop on a Proposed Ordinance Amending the Alameda Municipal Code by Repealing Section 30-5.15 (Medical Dispensaries and Cultivation) of the Alameda Municipal Code in its Entirety; Adding a New Article XVI (Cannabis Businesses); Adding a new Section 30-10 (Cannabis); and Amending Sections 24-11 (Smoking Prohibitions in Places of Employment and Unenclosed Public Places) and 24-12 (Smoking Prohibitions in Housing)
BACKGROUND
On November 1, 2016, the City Council approved a referral directing staff to study updated regulations for, and potential taxation of, commercial cannabis activities. The referral specifically directed staff to look at conditionally allowing cultivation, manufacture, testing, distribution, transport, and dispensing medical cannabis and recreational cannabis (should Proposition 64 pass on November 8, 2016, which it did). In addition, the referral directed staff to analyze potential fees and taxes related to cannabis business activities. Over the past nine months, the State has been developing its regulations in response to the adoption of the trailer bill (SB 94) that the Governor signed earlier this summer. This regulatory framework has been helpful to communities drafting local ordinances in that it unifies under a single licensing framework separate licensing regimes for medicinal and recreational cannabis.
On July 5, 2017, a second referral related to cannabis business activities was appro...
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