City Council adopted a pair of ordinances last week to amend the city’s cannabis and land-management codes. The amendments specify which cultivation practices are allowed within city limits and create a new city cannabis committee designed to streamline the municipal regulatory process.
The amended cannabis code explicitly bans the outdoor growth of marijuana within the city, an issue that has been debated elsewhere in Atlantic County.
It does, however, identify several kinds of cultivation facilities more typical of low-cost gardening and planting facilities that are allowed in the city. Permitted structures now explicitly include greenhouses, hoop houses, Quonset huts and what the city considers similar structures that can be used to cultivate marijuana.
The new ordinances also relax the city’s marijuana air-filtration requirements, such that they apply to only cultivation and manufacturing businesses.
While broadly classified as kinds of indoor cultivation, these new marijuana-growth facilities are explicitly allowed in three locations that are being developed for marijuana businesses pursuant to a redevelopment agreement that businesses have struck with the city. The three locations include the California Avenue Tract, Cambria Avenue and 11 Devins Lane redevelopment areas.