If Longmont lifts its pot-shops ban and allows a limited number of businesses to sell marijuana, none should be in the city’s core central downtown business district.
That was one point on which most Longmont City Council members agreed during a Tuesday night study session. The council resumed more than a year of discussions about whether to proceed with steps toward possibly allowing as many as four retail marijuana businesses to open up — as long as they met local regulations that have yet to be decided or adopted.
As far as where they might be located elsewhere in the city, most council members said they should be restricted to certain commercial and industrial zoning districts and yet-to-be-set distances away from any nearby schools, churches and alcohol or substance-abuse recovery and rehabilitation facilities.
Councilwoman Bonnie Finley said Longmont should apply the same or similar restrictions to marijuana businesses that it now uses to approve or deny proposed liquor store locations.
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