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Douglas County approves restrictive rules for natural medicine facilities, citing state law
Summary
Douglas County commissioners adopted zoning amendments to allow state-licensed natural medicine businesses in specific industrial or commercial locations while imposing distance, notice and operating restrictions, passing the measure 2–1.
The Douglas County Board of County Commissioners on June 24 adopted zoning resolution amendments to regulate state-licensed natural medicine businesses, including healing centers, cultivation, manufacturing and testing facilities, while imposing time, place and manner restrictions required by state law (project file DOCTOR2024-003).
Staff said Senate Bill 23,290 permits local governments to regulate the time, place and manner of these businesses but not to prohibit them entirely. The proposed county rules would allow healing centers as a use by special review in Business, Commercial, Light Industrial and General Industrial zones; cultivation, manufacturing and testing facilities would be allowed by…
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