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 Cannabis-related business

As the saying goes, it’s all location, location, location.
Where can retail marijuana facilities locate? What
about processing facilities? Where can it be grown?

“There’s been a lot of staff time spent on these issues,
trying to maintain a balance,” said Stephen Shane, In October 2015, A-Engrossed Ordinance No. 804 was
senior planner in Long Range Planning. Shane worked adopted. It applied the County’s medical marijuana
on two marijuana land use ordinances in FY2015–16. dispensary regulations, which were adopted in 2014
under A-Engrossed Ordinance No. 792, to future
“The County Board of Commissioners made every recreational marijuana retail facilities.
effort to respect the way the state Legislature has
approached marijuana legalization when it came to The real work began for both Shane and LUT Current
developing land use regulations. At the same time, Planning staff in January, when the Oregon Liquor
the Board has tried to respect the concerns of Control Commission (OLCC) began accepting license
everyone who may be affected.” applications from those looking to grow, process and/

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