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Council committee issues adverse report on proposal to convert smoke shop into vape shop
Summary
The planning committee recommended an adverse report and council approved it 11-2, blocking a conditional-use request that would have allowed a local business to sell more than 25% vape products and operate as a vape shop.
Akron City Council’s planning committee issued an adverse report on a conditional-use request to convert an existing smoke shop into a vape shop; the council approved the adverse report in a roll-call vote, 11–2.
Councilman DeShazier (spelled in transcript as DeShazier) explained that the business is already operating as a smoke shop and that Ohio law permits a ‘‘grandfathered’’ smoke shop to sell…
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