ORD 2025-6
The Zoning Petition to remove the repackaging prohibition as a City Council Zoning Petition. PASSED TO SECOND READING IN COUNCIL MAY 19, 2025. ELIGIBLE TO BE ORDAINED JUNE 9, 2025
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Voted yes (8)
Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
Cathie Zusy
E. Denise Simmons
Absent (1)
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
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Voted yes (9), unanimous
- Burhan Azeem
- Marc McGovern
- Patty Nolan
- Sumbul Siddiqui
- Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
- Paul F. Toner
- Ayesha M. Wilson
- Cathie Zusy
- E. Denise Simmons
Proposed zoning change: 11.803.1 Cannabis Retail Stores. (a) Cannabis Retail Stores shall be allowed only in those districts set forth in the Table of Use Regulations (Section 4.30 of this Zoning Ordinance) and special districts and overlay districts whose use regulations are based on those districts, subject to any limitations set forth in the regulations of those districts.
In the Business A-1 district, only applicants that have been designed as Economic Empowerment Applicants or certified as eligible to participate in the Social Equity Program by the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission may be permitted and such designation or eligibility shall be maintained.
(b) A Cannabis Retail Store shall not be permitted within one thousand and eight hundred (1,800) feet of another Cannabis Retail Store, except if the applicant has been designated as an Economic Empowerment Applicant or certified as eligible to participate in the Social Equity Program by the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission and maintains that designation and/or certification. In City Council June 9, 2025. Ordained by a yea and nay vote:- Yeas 9; Nays 0; Absent 0. Attest:- Paula M.
Crane, Interim City Clerk A true copy; ATTEST:- Paula M. Crane
Interim City Clerk