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Council directs staff to refine smoke‑shop rules and approves $34,750 for cannabis retail survey
Summary
After hours of public comment, councilors asked staff to tighten definitions and enforcement provisions in a proposed smoke‑shop ordinance, asked for more analysis on display‑area language and enforcement options, and separately approved a $34,750 appropriation for a public survey on retail cannabis.
The Redondo Beach City Council directed staff Tuesday to revise a draft ordinance regulating smoke shops and to return with a clearer, more enforceable version following extensive public comment and debate.
Council members asked staff to tighten key definitions (particularly what counts as a "smoke shop" vs an ancillary tobacco seller), to clarify how e‑cigarettes and synthetic or flavored nicotine products will be defined, and to prepare a firmer enforcement approach that can support search or undercover investigations when complaints surface.
At the meeting staff and the planning commission proposed an ordinance that would: create a new definition for "smoke shop" and require conditional use permits for new stores; cap the citywide number of smoke shops and phase nonconforming ones down over time; limit proximity of new shops to schools, youth centers and certain parks; set display‑area…
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