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Akron council enacts 180-day moratorium on new smoke and vape shops
Summary
The Akron City Council passed an emergency ordinance imposing a 180-day pause on permits, licenses and conditional-use approvals for smoke and vape shops to allow time for a review of regulations and neighborhood impacts; council voted 13-0.
Akron City Council on a unanimous vote imposed a 180-day moratorium on new smoke shops and vape shops to give the city time to study zoning, licensing and public-safety concerns.
Councilman Michael Fusco, who presented the ordinance, said the pause would halt “the issuance of or processing of any license, building permit, certificate of occupancy, conditional use, or other authorization that would enable the establishment or opening for business of a smoke shop and or vape shop” for 180 days.…
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