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Hanover adopts restrictions on recreational-substance retail stores after sheriff highlights enforcement actions
Summary
After a sheriff’s briefing on undercover buys and simultaneous search warrants, the Board adopted an ordinance requiring conditional-use review, minimum distances from schools and parks, restricted hours and lighting limits for recreational-substance retail stores (vape shops).
The Hanover County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt a zoning ordinance restricting recreational-substance retail stores — a category the county defined to include vape, hemp and similar products — following a law-enforcement briefing and public concern about youth access.
Sheriff Hines told the board earlier in the meeting that the sheriff's office had executed simultaneous search warrants at seven locations this morning (three in Hanover), resulting in three arrests and one active search for an additional suspect. He said earlier underage-buyer compliance checks had shown 11 of about 20 shops sold vape products to a buyer without ID, and that several cases were prosecuted by the Commonwealth's Attorney's…
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