Cannabis Policy
Proposed Code Amendments
Rules Committee meeting
Sept 24, 2025
(cont’d from June 30, 2025 Rules Committee meeting)
1 CITY COUNCIL PRIORITY
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OVERVIEW
• Recap of June Rules Committee meeting policy questions and feedback • Updated regional context and setback comparisons
• Updated eligible locations maps
• Recommended code changes
• Feedback from Committee
• Recommendations
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RECAP OF JUNE RULES COMMITTEE FEEDBACK
• Is there interest in allowing more dispensary operating permits? If so, how many? • Yes. Committee didn’t identify how many.
• Is there interest in expanding the eligible locations map? • Yes. Committee also expressed sensitivity to youth receptors. • Is there interest in eliminating the requirement for a CUP? • No
• Is there interest in allowing other use types?
• No
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OTHER FOLLOW-UP FROM JUNE MEETING
Lounges:
Oakland and Berkeley are the only cities in Alameda County to allow on-site consumption.
Tax Apportionment:
The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration provides the “point of sale” for delivery of cannabis is the address of the delivery.
City of Los Angeles adopted a local ordinance requiring cannabis deliveries from outside city limits to:
• register with the Police Department,
• show proof of license, and
• payment of the city’s business license tax.
Enforcement is extremely challenging:
• Requires close coordination with District Attorney’s office, SLPD, Finance Dept, and likely outside consultants to investigate and enforce (in addition to BCC and CDTFA). • Limitations in accessing records from businesses outside of City jurisdiction.
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CURRENTLY
ELIGIBLE PARCELS
BASED ON EXISTING
SETBACKS AND
ZONING
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EXISTING
REGIONAL
CONTEXT
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San Leandro Zoning Districts that allow
a Cannabis Dispensary with a CUP:
Industrial Zones
• IG - Industrial General
• IG (AU) – Industrial General
(Assembly Overlay)
• IP - Industrial Park
• IT - Industrial Transition
Commercial Zones
• CC - Commercial Community
STAFF RECOMMENDATION (CONT’D)
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• Align zoning code with Municipal Code to allow cannabis dispensaries as a conditionally permitted use in all commercial and industrial zones, subject to 600-foot setbacks • Codify clearer definition of Youth Center, using City of Alameda definition:
"Youth centers" means any public or private facility that is exclusively used to host recreational or social activities for minors (under eighteen (18) years of age), such as, private youth membership organizations or clubs, social service teenage club facilities, or amusement facilities. "Youth centers" does not include any building, location, or facility where any programs, activities, or services: (a) are offered at private residences, (b) involve martial arts/combat sports, cultural or similar education, or physical fitness, or (c) are offered for fewer than five hours per day each day the building, location, or facility is open. Notwithstanding the foregoing, youth centers shall also mean any facility determined by the Recreation and Parks Department to be a recreation center in a city park.”
EXISTING MAP VS. RECOMMENDED MAP COMPARISON*
Slide 9 *viability could be further impacted by individual site constraints; excludes youth center overlay
RECOMMENDATIONS
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• Provide feedback regarding staff recommendations
QUESTIONS?
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