A philosophical debate played out Tuesday among Boulder City Council on how best to keep notoriously smelly cannabis businesses from too forcefully dominating the aromas sensed by passerby and workers in neighboring commercial spaces.
City staff had been working on business licensing regulations for the city’s nearly five dozen hemp businesses involving cultivation and extraction to ensure odor isn’t disturbing others and to ensure workplace safety. The goal was to create more parity with local oversight of the psychoactive breed of cannabis, marijuana.
But instead of allowing only three cannabis businesses total, involving either of the plant, hemp or marijuana, to be within 500 feet of each other as the city staff recommended, Councilman Aaron Brockett sent an email ahead of the meeting requesting consideration of an amendment to allow three of each type of facility in the 500-foot radius.
Brockett was absent on vacation with his family for the virtual meeting, so he did not cast a vote on the matter. Mayor Sam Weaver and Councilwoman Mary Young said they were comfortable skipping Brockett’s proposed amendment because the city staff suggested granting grandfathered compliance to any existing business that would be in violation of the new rule that went into place for hemp businesses.
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