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A new interim zoning ordinance will put the kibosh on new medical marijuana businesses and restrict those already operating in Tulare County. Supervisors approved the ordinance, following a recommendation from county administrators and a lengthy presentation on Tuesday. The ordinance is set for 45 days, but it can be extended to 22 months, 15 days. The ordinance goes into effect immediately and, if it were to be extended, a public hearing would be needed. Previously,

Pursuant to the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”) (42 U.S.C. Section 1201, et seq.) and California’s Civil Code Section 54 (the “DPA”), individuals with disabilities are entitled to “the same rights as the general public to the full and free use of the streets, highways, sidewalks, walkways, public buildings, medical facilities, including hospitals, clinics, and physicians’ offices, public facilities and other public places.” Both state and Federal courts have found that the ADA and the

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — It’s been one week since Santa Cruz County launched an online cannabis registry and already some marijuana growers have issues with the process. An online registration process for cannabis cultivation is the first step. In another year, growers are required to apply for a cultivation license. So far, 31 accounts are open and packets have been downloaded but no one has completed the application process yet. Some cannabis cultivators KSBW spoke with

  From leaf blowers in Sonoma, to a cannabis tax in Cloverdale, to loosening up Healdsburg’s strict growth-control ordinance, to deciding among challengers and known incumbents, there is no shortage of local ballot issues for Sonoma County voters in November. In Cloverdale, voters will be asked whether to approve a tax of up to 10 percent on gross sales of marijuana businesses that could be allowed in the city in the future. With medical marijuana

UPLAND >> A proposal that will ban both medical and recreational marijuana-related activities in the city is going to the Planning Commission for review. After making numerous revisions to the ordinance, the commission will look at zoning and land issues. The council voted Aug. 8, 3-2, expedite to have a total ban in place before the November election — when voters across the state may approve the use of recreational marijuana. “If we don’t have

The capital city is readying to become a cannabis production center under a plan advanced Tuesday by a City Council committee. The council’s law and legislation committee moved forward with a conceptual plan to allow indoor cultivation of marijuana in commercial, industrial and agricultural zones in Sacramento – with a possibility of granting conditional use permits for limited facilities operating just outside of residential areas. The city’s push toward marijuana industrialization is expected to culminate

The Santa Cruz City Council will consider updating on Tuesday it’s cannabis business tax, a move that will require a vote of the people in the November 8 election to move forward. The 7 percent cannabis tax, which received a commanding 82 percent support when it first went to voters in November 2014, is a tax whose approximately $300,000 in annual funds are used for general city purposes. The proposed changes are designed to better

If approved by voters in November, it would be the first municipal pot tax in San Luis Obispo County and would open the door to marijuana dispensaries and cultivation within city limits which are both currently prohibited. The marijuana tax ballot measure has a 5% tax on medical marijuana sales in the city based on gross receipts. Recreational marijuana sales and cultivation, if approved by California voters in November, would be taxed at 10% in