City of Long Beach - File #: 20-0301

• File #: 20-0301
• Version: 2
• Name: DS - Reclassify cannabis cultivation
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 3/4/2020
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 4/14/2020
• Final action: 4/21/2020
• Title: Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Sections 21.15.441.1, 21.15.441.3, and Table 33-2 of Chapter 21.33; and by adding Section 21.15.441.5, all relating to cannabis businesses, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)
• Sponsors: Development Services

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/21/2020	2	City Council	approve recommendation and adopt	Pass
4/14/2020	1	City Council	declare ordinance read the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading	Pass

TITLE
Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Sections 21.15.441.1, 21.15.441.3, and Table 33-2 of Chapter 21.33; and by adding Section 21.15.441.5, all relating to cannabis businesses, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)

DISCUSSION
In July 2019, the City Manager provided the City Council with a review of adult-use cannabis business activity in Long Beach since adoption of the City’s regulations in 2018. The City Council direction to staff included a request to review zoning regulations and design requirements applicable to adult-use cannabis businesses and requested that the Planning Commission provide a recommendation to the City Council on any proposed updates to regulations for non-retail businesses. The overall purpose of this effort is to clarify the code, streamline the review process, and create options for compliance as appropriate. On January 16, 2020, the Planning Commission conducted a public hearing and recommended (with two Commissioners absent - 5-0) that City Council approve the proposed Cannabis Code Amendments and Findings (Attachment A - Findings).
The following provides an overview of each of the proposed amendments to the various Titles of the LBMC. The “red-lined” changes to the Zoning Code are included in Attachment B - Redlined Title 21 Amendments, Attachment C - Redlined Title 5 Amendments, and Attachment D - Redlined Title 8 Amendments.

Zoning Definitions & Land Use - Title 21

Currently, the Zoning Code contains definitions for Cannabis Cultivation and Cannabis Distribution. These definitions, while providing a basis for which to classify adult-use cannabis businesses, do not include the full scope of activities allowed by each business type. The proposed amendments to LBMC Chapter 21.15 are intended to further specify the range of activities common to Cannabis Cultivation and Cannabis Distribution uses. Additionally, the proposed amendments will introduce and define a new land use ca...