A public hearing will be held Monday for a series of amended bylaws and a revised policy setting out how the city will treat cannabis sellers and growers.
Pending council approval, cannabis retailers will be able to set up shop within select commercial zones but must apply for rezoning on a case-by-case basis which means each and every proposal will have to go through a public hearing.
Also, no store will be any closer than 1.6 kilometres from another - similar to the policy in place for liquor stores - and their hours will be set at 9 a.m. to
11 p.m., with council reserving the power to increase or decrease them also on a case-by-case basis.
In passing the related bylaws and policy through the first two readings on Sept. 17, council voted 6-3 to lower the fee for a business licence to $1,000 from $5,000 for both retailers and growers.
As for growers, the provisos remain the same as for those currently in place for producing medical marijuana and the term "cannabis" will replace "marijuana" in the existing bylaws.
Part of a regular meeting, the public hearing will start at
7 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall.
Also on the agenda:
A report on the effectiveness of a graffiti removal service will be presented to council.
From May 1 to Aug. 31, the B.C. New Hope Society, which operates Baldy Hughes Therapeutic Community and Farm, provided the service to private property under an agreement with the city.
Over that time, 34 graffiti removal efforts were completed while five remain incomplete due to ongoing interaction with bylaw services or delay in receiving the owner's consent to remove the graffiti.
Council will consider granting a one-year temporary use permit to Solutions Staffing Inc., which offers support services for recruitment and training of health care professionals, for 1224 Houston Lane.
An informal public hearing is scheduled for the matter at
7 p.m., prior to the formal hearing on the cannabis bylaws.
The full agenda is posted on the city website at www.princegeorge.ca.
