Consistent with the City Commission's expressed desire to prohibit new medical-marijuana businesses within Deltona, the city's Planning and Zoning Board has signed off on a draft ordinance to ban additional marijuana dispensaries in Deltona. The ordinance goes before the commission Monday evening, June 2.
The board May 21 voted 6-1 to recommend that the City Commission adopt the new measure, which would scrap the ordinance passed in 2014 and still in place — but not for long.
"The ordinance is out of date with state regulation," City Planner Jonathan Knight told the Planning and Zoning Board.
The 2014 law limited the placement of medical-marijuana dispensaries to operation in commercial zones as a conditional use, meaning special permission granted by the commission to operate. A state statute on medical-marijuana businesses limits the authority of local governments, such as cities and counties, to regulate them. Under the state law, cities and counties may ban such businesses outright, but they may not regulate them more strictly than they would regulate pharmacies or drugstores.
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