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Centennial council adopts emergency ordinance regulating natural-medicine facilities
Summary
The Centennial City Council on Jan. 7 adopted an emergency ordinance spelling out where and how state-licensed natural-medicine businesses may operate in the city, including local spacing rules, zoning limits and an exception for licensed clinical providers in health-care facilities.
Centennial — The City Council adopted an emergency ordinance (2024-0-19) on Jan. 7 that establishes local zoning, spacing and basic operating rules for natural-medicine businesses licensed under Colorado’s voter-approved framework.
The ordinance sets a city overlay that generally limits nonclinical healing centers, cultivation, manufacturing and testing facilities to an area roughly bounded by I-25, E. Arapahoe Road, S. Parker Road and the Arapahoe/Douglas county line. It also adopts state-mandated personal-cultivation limits and adds local time, place and manner restrictions, including limits on hours and a requirement that administration and integration sessions happen indoors.
City Attorney’s Office attorney Jill Hassman and Planning Manager Michael Grama presented the ordinance and walked council through local steps the city can take without conflicting with state law, which requires that licensed facilities not be banned outright. Hassman…
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