§ 88-28.402. Land use permit required.

(a)

Permit Required. Except as provided in section 88-28.404, a land use permit is required for all commercial cannabis activities in the unincorporated areas of the County.

(b)

Permit Term. A permit issued under this chapter shall have an initial term of five years. A permit may be renewed for additional five-year terms, one additional term at a time, as set forth in Section 88-28.424.

(c)

Limits on storefront retailer, commercial cultivation, and cannabis manufacturing permits.

(1)

No more than four permits for storefront retailers under Section 88-28.412 will be in effect at any one time.

(2)

No more than ten permits for commercial cultivation under Section 88-28.414 will be in effect at any one time.

(3)

No more than two permits for cannabis manufacturing within an agricultural zoning district under Section 88-28.416 will be in effect at any one time. The permit limit in this Section 88-28.402(c)(3) does not apply to either of the following:

(A)

Cannabis manufacturing within a zoning district that is not an agricultural zoning district.

(B)

A vertically-integrated business in an agricultural zoning district that includes both cannabis cultivation and cannabis manufacturing.

(4)

A permit issued for a vertically-integrated business that authorizes both (A) a storefront retailer under Section 88-28.412, and (B) commercial cultivation under Section 88-38.414, does not count toward the commercial cultivation ten-permit limit in Subsection (c)(2). Except as specifically provided in the preceding sentence or elsewhere in this Section 88-28.402(c), a permit issued for a vertically-integrated business counts toward the permit limit for each commercial cannabis activity involved in the vertically-integrated business.

(Ord. No. 2018-27, § 3, 9-25-18; Ord. No. 2018-18, § 3, 6-26-18)