Council considers UDO text changes to include vape shops, distance rules, and a lower product threshold
Aug 14, 2025
Staff presented a Unified Development Ordinance amendment to add 'vape' to the smoke-shop definition, reduce the product-share threshold from 90% to 50%, add distance buffers from schools/parks/libraries/daycares, set permitted hours, and prohibit drive-throughs; staff said existing businesses would be grandfathered.
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City planning staff presented a proposed text amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance to update the definition of a tobacco shop to explicitly include vape shops, to add or clarify paraphernalia definitions, and to introduce distance requirements from sensitive uses such as schools, parks, recreation facilities, libraries and daycare/childcare learning facilities.
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