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Pueblo council narrows approach to ‘natural medicine’ rules; staff to draft ordinance limiting locations to industrial/commercial zones
Summary
After a Planning Department presentation on state rules for natural medicine businesses, councilors directed staff to revise a proposed text amendment to remove residential districts and consider a 1,000-foot buffer from schools and childcare.
City planning staff presented a proposed zoning text amendment on Feb. 3 to regulate natural medicine businesses authorized under Colorado’s Senate Bill 23-290 (the statute implementing Proposition 122). Acting Planning Director Scott Hoffman told council the state law creates four licensed business types — healing centers, cultivation centers, testing facilities and product manufacturers — and allows local governments to regulate time, place and manner but not to prohibit the businesses outright.
Hoffman said statewide licensing inquiries are currently concentrated in the Denver metro area and that, to date, the city had received no local applications. Under the draft city proposal reviewed by Planning and Zoning, healing centers would be allowed by right in several commercial and mixed-residential districts (including R5 and R6,…
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