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Columbia planning commissioners recommend zoning changes to regulate smoke shops, dispensaries, tattoos and data centers
Summary
The Columbia Planning Commission recommended updates to the borough zoning code to add marijuana dispensaries, tattoo and body‑piercing uses, and a new data center definition; commissioners also discussed defining and limiting "smoke/vape" shops and using existing adult‑use buffers to keep such businesses away from schools.
Columbia Planning Commission members recommended changes to the borough's zoning code to add marijuana dispensaries to light business, light industrial and general industrial districts; to place tattoo and body‑piercing uses in the highway commercial district; and to add a definition for data centers to the permitted‑uses tables.
The commission's recommendation, presented during the meeting, asked that definitions for dispensaries be taken from “ordinance 885” and definitions for tattoo and body piercing be taken from “ordinance 796.” Speaker 2, a staff member, summarized the package: “We are recommending the changes to the tables of committed uses as we worked out at [the] March 20 meeting. We are also recommending that marijuana dispensary be added to the light business, light industrial, general industrial, and the definitions from ordinance 885 be added to the zoning ordinance. We are recommending that tattoo and body piercing be placed in…
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