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Kankakee committee backs six-month moratorium on standalone tobacco/smoke shops
Summary
The Kankakee City Licenses and Franchise Committee voted to recommend a six-month moratorium on new business licenses for standalone tobacco/smoke shops, excluding convenience stores and pending applications, and asked city legal to draft definitions and ordinance language.
The Kankakee City Licenses and Franchise Committee voted to recommend a six-month moratorium on new business licenses for standalone tobacco and smoke shops and to send the proposal to the mayor’s office and full City Council for formal consideration.
The moratorium — approved in a roll-call committee vote with seven ayes and no opposition — would apply only to businesses whose primary function is the sale of tobacco and related nicotine products, not to convenience stores, and would not apply to applicants who had already submitted a business license application. The committee asked the city legal department to prepare ordinance language, using Broadview’s existing licensing…
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