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Rio Blanco commissioners table vote on local rules for 'healing centers' after public safety, zoning and enforcement questions
Summary
After staff and the planning commission recommended a county framework for 'healing centers' (medically supervised locations for certain psychedelic medicines), commissioners heard public questions on staffing, fire suppression, hours and separation distances and voted to table the item for further research and amendments until May 5.
County officials on April 14 opened a public hearing on a proposed amendment to Rio Blanco County’s 2016 land-use rules to regulate so-called "healing centers," local facilities intended for medically supervised on-site consumption of a short list of hallucinogenic medicines approved by voters and state regulators. Planning staff and the county planning commission recommended approval, but commissioners postponed a final decision.
Planner Leaf summarized the draft rules and the process, saying the county must allow healing centers under state law but can narrow where and how they operate. Leaf told the board the draft would limit centers to industrial zoning in unincorporated county areas and to sites within five miles of a recognized…
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