The City Council appeared Monday to settle on allowing pending applications for new marijuana stores and grow houses to proceed when Denver lifts a moratorium May 1.
Although some members hesitated on that issue, the guidance gave the green light to Councilwoman Robin Kniech to craft a formal proposal that still would replace the moratorium on new entrants into the market with new citywide caps on stores and cultivation facilities. Applicants in the pipeline would be included under the caps.
But future applications for those types of businesses would compete for licenses that become available through lotteries, with some restrictions set on where they could go.
Kniech is aiming to present the measure to the council’s moratorium committee, made up of all 13 members, on April 4. That would give it a chance of passing the full council before the city’s temporary moratorium expires.
The city set its original two-year moratorium before the start of recreational marijuana sales in January 2014, restricting the retail side to existing medical licensees. When that expired, the council extended an expanded version for four months to allow time to discuss a permanent solution. [Read more at The Denver Post]
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