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Villa Rica planning commissioners back zoning changes to limit vape and smoke shops
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approving a text amendment that would expand buffer distances for vape and smoke shops and replace a sales-based test with a 50% shelf-space/display threshold, sending the measure on to city council with a recommendation.
The Villa Rica Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of a zoning text amendment that would increase separation distances for vape shops, tobacco/smoke shops and medical cannabis dispensaries and replace a sales-based test with a 50% shelf-space/display threshold, commissioners said.
The change was proposed after staff identified a gap in the city zoning code for vape devices and similar products and following a review of state law. "The city attorney did advise staff to amend the word 'marijuana' and replace it with 'cannabis,'" Planning and Zoning Administrator Sean Daniels said at the public hearing.
Commissioners and staff said the amendment would add definitions for vape products and vape shops to section 8.22 of the zoning ordinance, expand required separations from certain sensitive uses and replace the current aggregate-sales metric used to classify a business as a smoke or vape shop.
Under the draft text amendment, staff…
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