Asked the City Manager to direct the appropriate City personnel to explore the need for a special permitting process for cannabis dispensaries, special permitting fees and bicycle parking requirements that are required of local recreational cannabis dispensaries, to provide a report on how the special permit process, and these requirements may impact these businesses, to determine whether these requirements may need to be modified or eliminated, and to report back to the City Council on this matter in a timely manner

How it started

Jan 23, 2023 · Proposed by Councillors Simmons and Toner: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jan 23, 2023 · Amendment carried Moved by Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon; carried.

POR 2023 #10 by adding the words “the need for a special permitting process for cannabis dispensaries” and “ the special permit process, and” so that the Policy Order reads: ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the appropriate City personnel to explore the need for a special permitting process for cannabis dispensaries, special permitting fees and bicycle parking requirements that are required of local recreational cannabis dispensaries, to provide a report on how the special permit process, and these requirements may impact these businesses, to determine whether these requirements may need to be modified or eliminated, and to report back to the City Council on this matter in a timely manner

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jan 23, 2023, p. 12.

Jan 23, 2023 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

View the roll call

Voted yes (9), unanimous

Burhan Azeem
Dennis Carlone
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
E. Denise Simmons
Paul F. Toner
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui

Roll call of Jan 23, 2023 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number (AR 2023 #2 open, 1,291 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page

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ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the appropriate City personnel to explore the special permitting fees and bicycle parking requirements that are required of local recreational cannabis dispensaries, to provide a report on how these requirements may impact these businesses, to determine whether these requirements may need to be modified or eliminated, and to report back to the City Council on this matter in a timely manner.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jan 23, 2023

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2023-11-06). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.