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Clinton council tightens rules for tobacco and hemp retail: 1,000-foot buffers, grandfathering, measurement clarification
Summary
Council adopted a set of related text amendments to the land development code to define tobacco/hemp retail, allow the use in highway commercial with conditions, and add special-use requirements including a 1,000-foot buffer from schools, religious institutions and parks; existing businesses are grandfathered.
The Clinton City Council adopted a sequence of staff-drafted text amendments to the city’s land development ordinance addressing tobacco and hemp retail.
City staff said the package first updates definitions, then adds tobacco and hemp retail as a permitted use in the highway commercial zone (subject to conditions), and finally sets special-use requirements. The special requirements include a 1,000-foot buffer measured in a straight line…
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