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Commissioners review emergency cannabis zoning language, ask for mapped setbacks
Summary
County planning staff presented an emergency amendment to the zoning ordinance to add use classifications and setbacks for state‑licensed cannabis dispensaries, growers and processors; commissioners asked staff to create a map showing allowable locations before formal introduction.
Caroline County planning staff and commissioners discussed an emergency zoning amendment on March 4 to add rules for state‑licensed cannabis facilities — dispensaries, growers and processors — and to set local setbacks consistent with state limitations.
Planner Crystal (last name not recorded in the public transcript) described the draft attachments to the Caroline County Table of Use Regulations. Dispensaries would be regulated like small- and large-scale retail under existing commercial categories; state law limits local setbacks for dispensaries to 500 feet from schools, child‑care centers,…
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