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Commission backs moving cannabis community-benefit fees into ordinance and adding a sales-based option
Summary
The planning commission voted to recommend that the Board of Supervisors move community-benefit fee language from Board Policy B-9 into Ordinance 671 and add a retail option allowing cannabis retailers to choose either the existing flat square-foot fee or a 5% net-sales quarterly fee, with county reporting and audit provisions.
The Riverside County Planning Commission on Nov. 19 voted to recommend to the Board of Supervisors an amendment to commercial cannabis fee rules that would relocate fee language from Board Policy B-9 into Ordinance 671 and offer a second option for retailers to remit community-benefit payments.
Staff explained that fees traditionally belong in an ordinance and that the proposal would preserve the…
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