1. Cannabis Regulations
   The proposed ordinance amends Section 25.32.17 “Cannabis Regulations” to be consistent with Chapter 10E of the Fairfield Municipal code. Specifically, the amendment includes language identifying that commercial cannabis activities are permitted within the City subject to the rules and requirements of Fairfield Municipal Code Chapters 10E.
   
   
2. Definitions
   The ordinance includes amendments to Section 25.50 “Definitions” to include: 1) a definition for commercial cannabis businesses permitted within the City including retail, testing labs, and manufacturing consistent with Chapter 10E, 2) to remove references to medical marijuana dispensaries which are obsolete, and 3) to clarify the definition of crop production as it relates to cannabis cultivation.

• Commercial cannabis businesses are defined as follows:

“Commercial Cannabis Business. Any business or operation which engages in medicinal or adult-use commercial cannabis activity.”

“Commercial Cannabis Business, Retail. An establishment engaged in the retail sales of cannabis products and is owned and operated pursuant to a valid commercial cannabis business permit for retail from the City and a valid State license. Includes both storefront and non-storefront retailers as defined in FMC Chapter 10E Section 10E.5.”

“Commercial Cannabis Business, Testing Lab. An establishment engaged in the testing of commercial cannabis and is owned and operated pursuant to a valid commercial cannabis business permit for testing labs from the City and a valid State license.”

“Commercial Cannabis Business, Manufacturing. An establishment engaged in the production, preparation, propagation, or compounds cannabis or cannabis products, directly or indirectly, by extraction methods, independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and is owned and operated by a person issued a valid commercial cannabis business permit for manufacturing from the City and a valid State license as required for manufacturing of cannabis products. May include businesses that use either volatile or non-volatile solvents.”

• The definition of “Office, Administrative, Business, or Professional” is revised to remove the phrase “nor medical marijuana dispensaries, which are prohibited.”
  
  

• The definition of “Office, Medical and Dental” is revised to remove the sentence “This classification also does not include medical marijuana dispensaries, which are prohibited.”
  
  

• The definition of “Crop Production” is revised to read as follows:
  
  

“Crop Production. Agricultural uses including the production of grains, field crops, vegetables, melons, fruits, tree nuts, flower fields, seed production, ornamental crops, tree and sod farms, associated crop preparation services and harvesting activities including mechanical soil preparation, irrigation system construction, spraying not involving the use of aircraft, crop processing and sales in the field not involving a permanent structure. This classification does not include cannabis cultivation which is regulated under Section 25.32.17 “Cannabis Regulations” and Chapter 10E of the Fairfield Municipal Code.”

3. Land Use Tables

To be consistent with Chapter 10E, the proposed ordinance includes updates to Table 25-9: Commercial District Land Use Regulations, Table 25-H1: Heart of Fairfield Land Use Regulations, and Table 25-11: Industrial District Land Use Regulations to permit certain commercial cannabis businesses. 

• “Commercial Cannabis Business, Retail” is to be permitted in the CS, CT, CR, CM, HWT, IBP and IL zoning districts.
  
  
• “Commercial Cannabis Business, Testing Lab” and “Commercial Cannabis Business, Manufacturing” is to be permitted in the IBP, IL and IG zoning districts.
  
  
• Each table will include a reference to Chapter 10E (Commercial Cannabis Business) of the Fairfield Municipal Code under the column “Additional Regulations.”
  
  
• Two notes will be added to each table which specify additional locational requirements for commercial cannabis businesses under Chapter 10E. The notes shall read as follows:
  
  

“Retail sales of cannabis shall not be located on any commercial or industrial property within the area bounded by Travis Blvd., Pennsylvania Ave., and Gateway Blvd.”; and

“No commercial cannabis business, whether Retail, Manufacturing, or Testing Lab, shall be closer than six hundred (600) feet from any of the following  sensitive uses that are in existence at the time a permit application is deemed complete: a public or private school providing instruction in kindergarten or any grades 1 through 12; a child day care center; or a youth center, as defined in Chapter 10E of the Fairfield Municipal Code. The distance measured shall be the horizontal distance measured in a straight line from the property line of the parcel with the sensitive use to the closest property line of the lot on which the cannabis business is located.”