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Staff proposes to slot state-authorized psilocybin 'healing centers' into clinic and light-industrial zones
Summary
City staff recommended treating state-licensed natural-medicine "healing centers" as medical/dental clinics and placing cultivation, manufacturing and testing in light-industrial zones; council members asked about overnight retreats, facilitator ratios, safety/911 calls and state preemption.
City staff presented draft amendments to the local land-use code that would accommodate Colorado-authorized "healing centers" for natural medicine such as psilocybin, saying the changes are intended to align local zoning with the Natural Medicine Health Act passed by the Colorado General Assembly in 2023.
Speaker 3 (staff presenter) told the workshop the Division of Natural Medicine has completed its rulemaking and "will begin accepting applications for licenses on December 31st," and that state law preempts municipalities from prohibiting personal use while allowing limited local regulation. "We're going to...start seeing this use pop up," Speaker 3 said, framing the proposal as a way to slot the centers into existing use categories rather than ban them.
The draft would add healing centers to the definition of "medical and dental clinic" for zoning purposes and classify cultivation facilities, product manufacturers and testing labs as light industrial. "Healing centers are classified as a medical and dental…
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