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Planning Commission forwards medical cannabis report to supervisors with tweaks on buffer and clustering
Summary
After public testimony from patients, veterans and neighborhood groups, the Planning Commission voted 6–1 to adopt staff recommendations on medical cannabis dispensaries, endorsing some green‑zone expansion ideas while requiring further study of zoning changes and adding safeguards against clustering.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on March 27 adopted the Planning Department’s report on medical cannabis dispensary location rules and forwarded it to the Board of Supervisors with multiple modifications.
Planner Aaron Starr presented the report, reciting relevant legal context from state and federal law and summarizing staff findings and eight recommendations. The recommendations included keeping the Director-level approval process (the "Doctor" process) but adding specific findings, exploring ways to expand the so-called green zone (including reducing the 1,000‑foot buffer from schools to as little as 600 feet, allowing second-floor locations, or…
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