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Council signals support to ease distance rules for natural-medicine healing centers; staff to pursue UDO amendment
Summary
Planning staff proposed narrowing distance buffers and expanding hours for "healing center" natural medicine businesses after a local operator said the current rules would prevent her from opening. Council asked questions about odors, precedence and state licensing and directed staff to advance the draft through the UDO process.
Becky Smith, the city's new director of planning and development, told council on March 16 that staff drafted amendments to the unified development ordinance (CB 20-30, adopted Oct. 2025) to address concerns raised by a local natural medicine facilitator who said the ordinance's distance rules would prevent her business from operating.
Smith outlined three changes in the packet: removing the 200-foot buffer from residential structures, removing the 500-foot buffer from public parks, and expanding allowable hours from a 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekday window to 7 a.m.-11:59 p.m., seven days…
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