OROVILLE — Tuesday, Butte County supervisors will be asked to extend a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries for 22 months and 15 days.
On Jan. 12, the supervisors adopted an “interim urgency ordinance” that established a 45-day moratorium on new dispensaries or the operation of existing ones, the Chico Enterprise-Record’s Roger H. Aylworth writes.
The urgency measure was enacted to give the county time to craft an ordinance that would either establish the criteria for allowing dispensaries or outlaw them.
The law allows for the extension of an urgency ordinance of this sort and in a message to the board, interim Chief Administrative Officer Scott Tandy is asking for that.
He said there are court cases in the system on issues related to the placement of dispensaries and those cases could well be settled by the end of the extension, which would clarify what the county can and cannot do.
The proposal to extend the ban will be the topic of a time-certain public hearing, scheduled for 10:30 a.m.
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