2023-64 - Moratorium on permits for adult cannabis use businesses

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 27CE1015-8397-4CCE-9DD9-31 F514ECBED3 and retail dispensaries of adult use marijuana as defined in Sections 3780.01 through 3780.99 of the Ohio Revised Code. Section 2: The purpose of this moratorium is to allow the City Administration and Council to consider amendments to pertinent Codified Ordinances, including the Lakewood Zoning Code, to prepare regulations which may be necessary, and to determine where and whether to allow, limit or prohibit cultivators, processors, and retail dispensaries in the City. Section 3. Council and the Mayor hereby direct and order that no permits for cultivators, processors or retail dispensaries of adult use marijuana shall be issued or processed by the City during the moratorium, except as may be required by the Act with respect to existing dispensaries of marijuana products for medical use. Section 4. The moratorium shall be in effect for a period beginning from the effective date of this Resolution through the earlier of July 31, 2024, until changes are enacted to amend the Codified Ordinance of the City of Lakewood to address these issues, or until Council approves legislation explicitly revoking this moratorium, whichever occurs first. Section 5. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this Resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements. Section 6. This Resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare in the City and for the usual daily operation of the City for the reasons set forth and defined in the preamble to this ordinance, and provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the members of Council, this Resolution shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its adoption by the Council and approval by the Mayor, or otherwise it shall take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law. Adopted: 11 / 2 0 / 2 3 Approved: DocuSigned by: John Litten, President of Council DocuSigned by: Maureen M. Bach, Clerk of Council Meghan .George, Mayor