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Council adopts rules to permit nonretail marijuana production sites with conditions after lengthy hearing
Summary
After nearly four hours of public testimony, the council voted 6–3 to adopt staff'recommended Option 2 (allowing nonretail production, manufacturing and testing with conditional use permits) with amendments directing further work on odor, grandfathering and caps; police and many parents urged the more cautious Option 1.
After more than an hour of staff explanation and several hours of public testimony, the San Diego City Council voted on Sept. 11 to adopt amendments implementing California's adult‑use marijuana law that allow non‑retail production uses under local controls.
Staff presented two options. Option 1, supported by the San Diego Police Department, would allow testing labs as a new permitted use while keeping cultivation, manufacturing and distribution prohibited. Option 2 would create a new use category—"marijuana production facilities"—to allow cultivation, manufacturing and distribution under conditional use permits (CUPs), limit locations to specified industrial and commercial zones, impose health and security rules, and cap the number of production facilities (the staff draft proposed two per council district).
Chief Shelley Zimmerman of the San Diego Police…
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