Title:
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Analysis of Cannabis Impacts
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FileID
File ID: 2018-01665
Location
Location: Citywide
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Receive and file; with direction to the City Manager to report back to the City Council with a resolution establishing the requirements for parties that chose to enter into study-option neighborhood responsibility agreements, to conduct an individual neighborhood impact study into the potential impacts of their proposed businesses on the surrounding neighborhood.
Contact: Steve Y. Itagaki, Supervising Deputy City Attorney, (916) 808-5346, Office of the City Attorney
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Presenter: Steve Y. Itagaki, Supervising Deputy City Attorney, (916) 808-5346, Office of the City Attorney
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Analysis of Cannabis Impacts Final Report
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The Matrix Consulting Group (Matrix) was hired by the city to conduct an impact study for cannabis business operations. The City Council commissioned the study through resolutions that also established that the voluntary execution of an agreement to pay an amount established by an impact study (study-option agreement), shall be deemed to satisfy the neighborhood responsibility plan (NRP) requirement for a conditional use permit to conduct cannabis uses on a property.
Matrix has issued its final report titled Analysis of Cannabis Impacts (Attachment 1). That report finds the following:
* All services being provided by city departments in the review, inspection, and issuance of permits are being accounted for in the current fees and charges.
* The impact fees that are currently in place to mitigate development impacts are appropriate.
* The secondary impacts to neighborhoods identified by the community and businesses are not able to be validated without additional information specific to the proposed sites.
Staff recommends that the City Council receive and file the Analysis of Cannabis Impacts report and direct the City M...
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