RAPID CITY, S.D. – Rapid City’s Legal and Finance Committee has passed on its rules governing zoning regulations for medical marijuana.
The rules say that both testing facilities and dispensaries will be allowed to build anywhere within permitted areas, but manufacturing and cultivation facilities will always fall under a conditional use permit. Those permits can be approved on a case-by-case basis.
The current zoning proposal will allow dispensaries to open in locations more than 1,000 feet from private or public schools and at least 500 feet away from public schools, churches, parks and playgrounds, childcare center or residential areas.
The committee has also extended the deadline that a dispensary would have to begin sale to comply with state guidelines that require the product to be grown in state. That deadline is now one year.
The first reading of the ordinance is expected at Monday’s Rapid City Council Meeting.
