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Planning and Zoning Commission backs ordinance amendment to regulate smoke‑related shops, adds 1,000‑foot buffer from schools and churches
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that City Council adopt a zoning ordinance amendment to add cigar lounges and revise classifications for CBD and smoke shops, requiring a specific‑use permit and a 1,000‑foot buffer from schools and churches; the recommendation passed 6‑1.
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend a zoning ordinance amendment that would add cigar lounges to the city’s land‑use table, consolidate hookah and vaping uses into a “cigar and smoke shop” classification, and require certain new smoke‑related businesses to obtain a specific‑use permit and meet a 1,000‑foot buffer from schools and churches.
The change, recommended by a 6‑1 vote, also renames “CBD stores” to “CBD shops” and specifies parking and use‑specific standards for the new categories. Existing businesses operating in compliance with the current ordinance would not be affected by the amendment, staff said.
The amendment was presented by Stephanie Scott Sims, director of development services, who described the specific changes to the zoning ordinance’s land use table (Table 19) and the new definitions. “We would be removing hookah lounge, and including that the definition of that hookah lounge within the…
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