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City staff to draft ordinance lowering tobacco-shop threshold, council flags 'non regulated psychoactive substances'
Lockport City Council · August 21, 2024
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Summary
Staff proposed lowering the city's tobacco-shop threshold (currently coded at 80%) toward a lower percentage used by other communities and to add language addressing non-regulated psychoactive substances; council asked staff to draft specific language for Committee of the Whole.
City staff told the council they will prepare an ordinance draft to revise how the city defines and regulates tobacco/smoke shops and related paraphernalia sales.
"Currently our code states that 80% of tobacco sale, then you're a tobacco shop. But 80% is pretty high," a staff speaker said, noting most…
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