The city government’s ad hoc cannabis committee presented its final recommendation to city council on Tuesday night, which included the move to allow cultivation licenses and exclude recreational cannabis from certain neighborhood commercial districts.
After four months of public meetings and behind the scenes brainstorming, the committee’s task is complete. Now, council will decide how to move forward with bringing cannabis businesses to the city.
Council aims to pass final legislation in October, Councilman Angel Fuentes said, but could theoretically wait until as late as Dec. 31, the deadline the state's Cannabis Regulation Committee gave after the city temporarily opted out in August to give time for local legislation to be drafted.