2018/05/09 Council Agenda Packet

WHEREAS,the City Council concludes the following: 1. Although there are no policies in the Comprehensive Plan related to recreational marijuana retail stores, the proposed amendment to the Zoning Code is not inconsistent with the Everett Growth Management Comprehensive Plan; 2. The proposed amendment bears a substantial relation to public health, safety or welfare; 3. The proposed amendment to the Zoning Code provides for the best long-term interests of the Everett community. NOW,THEREFORE,THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. Section 2 of Ordinance No. 3486-16 (EMC 19.39.145, as amended), which reads as follows: C. Retailers. Marijuana retailers may operate in the city pursuant to the following restrictions: 1. Marijuana retailers must comply with all requirements of state law, Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board and the city; 2. Marijuana retailers may locate only within the B-2, B-3, BMU, C-1, C-1R, C-2,E-1, E- 1MUO, and M-2 zones; 3. Marijuana retailers may not locate in neighborhood business (B-1) zones; 4. Marijuana retailers may not locate in a building in which nonconforming retail uses have been established in residential zones (R-S, R-1,R-1(A),R-2, R-2(A), R-3, R-3(L), R-4, and R-5 zones); 5. Marijuana retailers may not locate within one thousand feet of any parcel containing an elementary or secondary school, playground,recreation center or facility, child care center, public park,public transit center, or library, or any game arcade admission to which is not restricted to persons aged twenty-one years or older; 6. Marijuana retailers may not locate within two thousand five hundred feet of any other legally established marijuana retailer; 2 3