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Commission opens public hearing on beer-and-cigarette market text amendment, preserves spacing rule but votes to defer formal action one meeting
Summary
Planning staff presented a text amendment that would regulate "beer and cigarette" markets and vape shops by adding spacing and proximity rules; staff recommended disapproving the filed version and approving a substitute that removes a 100-foot residential buffer and exempts downtown zones from a 1,320-foot separation rule
The Planning Commission held a public hearing on a proposed text amendment that would regulate beer-and-cigarette markets (including vape shops) by imposing spacing and proximity limitations and new signage and lighting rules. Planning staff urged disapproval of the bill as filed and recommended approval of a substitute ordinance that keeps a spacing limit to limit over-concentration (1,320 linear feet between like uses) but removes a proposed…
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