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Gilroy council enacts citywide moratorium on new tobacco retailers

City of Gilroy — Coffee with the Mayor · January 12, 2026
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Summary

Gilroy's council extended a previously discussed downtown moratorium to a citywide urgency ordinance that pauses new tobacco-retailer approvals for up to 10 months while staff researches updated code and public-health options; council set a 45-day window for findings to justify the pause.

The City of Gilroy has imposed an urgency ordinance pausing approvals for new tobacco retailers across the city as staff prepares findings and a possible update to municipal code.

At Coffee with the Mayor, officials said the moratorium began as a targeted pause for the downtown corridor but council expanded it after receiving additional information about the growth of new…

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