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Akron planning committee sets public hearings for dispensaries, vape shops and smoke‑shop zoning changes

5452479 · July 22, 2025
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Summary

The Planning and Economic Development Committee scheduled public hearings and advanced several conditional‑use ordinances and a zoning text amendment that would change how vape and smoke shops are regulated in Akron.

The Planning and Economic Development Committee on first reading scheduled public hearings on multiple conditional‑use ordinances for marijuana dispensaries, a vape shop and freestanding signs and advanced a zoning text amendment that would add rules for smoke shops and remove vape shops from the conditional‑use list.

Committee chair read the new legislation into the record and directed items be advertised for…

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