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Committee considers zoning and licensing options for vape retailers amid youth vaping concerns
Summary
Committee members discussed an advisory commission report on vaping and potential local zoning and licensing tools — including distance buffers from schools, limits on shop density, flavored-product restrictions and more frequent underage-sting enforcement — and asked staff to draft ordinance options.
Committee members reviewed a Tennessee Advisory Commission report on youth vaping and discussed local options to limit the number and location of vape retailers, restrict flavored products and increase underage sales stings.
Chief Jones summarized the state report and said cities can use zoning and licensing to limit clustering of vape shops and place distance limits from schools. Committee members asked staff to coordinate with the city zoning officer (Keith) to draft ordinance language that uses the maximum authority available under state law, to consider grandfathering existing sellers and to evaluate stronger sting/enforcement activity and mandatory ID checks for purchasers.
No ordinance was adopted at the meeting. Staff will return with draft language and recommendations for how to apply distance buffers, zone restrictions or caps on new retailers.
