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Villa Rica tightens rules for vape and smoke shops, adopts 25% sales threshold and 1,500-foot buffers
Summary
The City Council amended zoning rules to expand distance requirements for smoke and vape shops, ban them in the Central Business District, and classify businesses as vape/smoke shops if 25% of aggregate retail sales are from these products; the council adopted staff’s recommendation unanimously.
The Villa Rica City Council adopted a text amendment to Section 8.22 of the zoning ordinance to regulate smoke shops, tobacco stores, vape shops and medical cannabis dispensaries. The changes increase minimum distances to 1,500 feet from property line to property line for sensitive uses and for similar businesses, ban smoke or vape shops in the Central Business District, and set a 25% aggregate retail sales threshold to classify a business as a smoke or vape shop.
Planning and zoning staff presented the amendment at a public hearing. Planning and zoning administrator Sean Daniels told the council staff “proposes to increase…
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