File #: 10-01006    Version:
Type: Agenda Item Status: Passed
File created: In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 12/7/2010 Final action: 12/7/2010
Title: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding an extension of the Interim Urgency Ordinance regarding Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, beyond its current expiration of January 7, 2011, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required) (EST. TIME: 30 MIN.) a) Adopt an Ordinance extending the current Interim Urgency Ordinance for a Moratorium on Approval of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries for one (1) year from December 7, 2010, in order to provide staff (County Counsel, Planning and Development, Sheriff, and Probation Departments) with adequate time for studying and considering tools to draft language, regulate, restrict, or ban the operation of medical marijuana dispensaries; b) Issue this report pursuant to Government Code section 65858(d); and c) Determine that the adoption of this Countywide Urgency Ordinance is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15060(c)(2) and 15060(c)(3), and direct staff to file the Notice of Exemption. COUNTY EX...
Sponsors: PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Urgency Ordinance, 3. Notice of Exemption, 4. California Police Chiefs Association’s Task Force on Marijuana Dispensaries, 5. Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office Press Release, 6. Tehama County Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer’s White Paper on Medical Marijuana, 7. Board Letter/Attachments 12/7/10

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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding an extension of the Interim Urgency Ordinance regarding Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, beyond its current expiration of January 7, 2011, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required) (EST. TIME: 30 MIN.)

 

a) Adopt an Ordinance extending the current Interim Urgency Ordinance for a Moratorium on Approval of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries for one (1) year from December 7, 2010, in order to provide staff (County Counsel, Planning and Development, Sheriff, and Probation Departments) with adequate time for studying and considering tools to draft language, regulate, restrict, or ban the operation of medical marijuana dispensaries;

 

b) Issue this report pursuant to Government Code section 65858(d); and

 

c) Determine that the adoption of this Countywide Urgency Ordinance is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15060(c)(2) and 15060(c)(3), and direct staff to file the Notice of Exemption.

 

COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY