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Council adopts commercial cannabis operational fees but fails to approve testing-lab permit guidelines

Riverside City Council · August 19, 2025
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Summary

Council adopted seven commercial cannabis operational fees to cover city costs for renewals, transfers, site modifications and other permit actions, but a separate motion to adopt testing-laboratory permit guidelines and the proposed $7,511 application fee failed for lack of four affirmative votes.

On Aug. 19 the council approved a package of seven commercial cannabis operational fees intended to recover city costs related to retail storefront permitting and ongoing regulation. Kyle Wierczynski, senior project manager in Economic Development, presented a user-fee study proposing flat fees to recover staff time and overhead for annual renewals, changes in location, transfers, site or building modifications, changes in less-than-majority ownership,…

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