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City of Flint “Opt-In” to Medical Marijuana Facilities Licensing Act, 45-day Window for Provisioning Center and other Licenses begins Tuesday
Posted by: Candice Mushatt
Flint, Michigan – July 30, 2018. – At their meeting on Monday, July 23rd, Flint City Council put the finishing touches on the Medical Marihuana Scoring Rubric, thus finalizing the City’s Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act (MMFLA) ordinance. Now with the Council and the Mayor’s approval, the rubric will be utilized to score and ultimately rank applications that are submitted to the City for Medical Marihuana Provisioning, Safety Compliance, or Secure Transporting licenses.
Passage of the scoring rubric results in a 45-day application “window” opening at 9:00 am Tuesday, July 31st and closing on Friday, September 14th at 3:00 pm. All applications for Medical Marihuana Provisioning, Testing, and Transporting facilities must be submitted to the City’s Zoning Office at that time. Applications submitted after 3:00 pm on Friday, September 14th will not be accepted by the City of Flint and will not be considered for scoring. These scores will determine the order in which applications for these licenses will be processed through the City of Flint, up to the capped number of licenses for these license types.
However, applications for Medical Marihuana Growing and/or Processing Facility licenses are available now, and will be accepted at any time. The applications for these license types are available on the City’s website, and are not subject to this application window or a merit review.
The Flint City Council approved a MMFLA “opt-in” ordinance on May 14th, 2018. The City’s MMFLA ordinance will allow for the commercial growing, processing, testing, transporting, and provisioning of medical marihuana to legal State of Michigan medical marihuana cardholders.
The ordinance sets zoning regulations on the different uses as well as “caps” the total number of certain facilities within the City. Key elements of the ordinance include:
– All medical marihuana facilities must be at least 1,000 ft. away from a Pre-K through 12 school; 500 ft. away from a dedicated public park or place of worship; and 300 ft. from a residentially zoned property.
– No more than four (4) Provisioning centers can exist within 2,000 ft. of one-another or other Group “A” special regulated uses.
– Growing, Processing, Testing and Transporting facilities can only be located in manufacturing and industrial zoning districts, i.e. those Zoned E, F, and G.
– Provisioning centers can only be located in high-traffic commercial, manufacturing, and industrially zoned districts, i.e. in Zones D-5, D-6, E, F, and G.
– A maximum allocation of licenses was set at the following caps:
o Provisioning Center: 20 licenses
o Secure Transporting: 5 License
o Safety Compliance: 5 Licenses
o Growing Centers: No Limit
o Processing Centers: No Limit
– A $1,500 non-refundable application fee (and additional fees for plan review and approval).
– A $5,000 non-refundable, annual re-licensing fee.
To access the complete MMFLA ordinance, obtain an application, or view the potential areas permitted for medical marihuana facilities, please visit (https://www.cityofflint.com/planning-and-development/planning-and-zoning-2/medical-marihuana-facilities/ ).
For questions on the ordinance and application process, please contact the City’s Planning & Zoning Division at (810)-766-7426 (exts. 3060 or 3028). |
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Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:20 am |
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FLINT NEWS
Proposed Flint marijuana ordinance would expand options for potential facilities
Updated Mar 29, 2018; Posted Mar 29, 2018
By Zahra Ahmad zahmad@mlive.com
FLINT, MI -- The Flint City Council delayed moving ahead with an ordinance change that would expand the possible locations where medical marijuana facilities could be placed in the city.
A special meeting was held Wednesday, March 28, to discuss a proposed ordinance change that would allow medical marijuana centers to operate at least 500 feet from schools, parks and places of worship.
The city currently requires a buffer of at least 1,000 feet.
Council members are weighing their options after a developer sought to open a marijuana facility in a former Family Video store in the Seventh Ward.
A decision on the wording of the ordinance was tabled by the council so they could approve the city's budget in a timely manner. Councilwoman Monica Galloway said the discussion will be picked up Wednesday, April 4.
Mayor Karen Weaver was in attendance to express her concern of how the money that would be generated from taxes at the medical marijuana center would be distributed to the city.
"The way the money is broken up right now allows for 40 percent going to the state, 30 goes to the county, 25 goes to the city and five percent goes to the Sheriff's office, but the city has the burden of policing the issue," Weaver said. "We need to get that changed and make sure that Flint gets its fair share of the money from the taxes coming in. We're stretching our public safety resources, but we don't get the money. We need to talk to state legislators to get our voice heard and our fair share."
Another concern the mayor shared relates to the liquid assets required by the state to operate a medical marijuana facility. The requirement ranges from $150,000 to $500,000.
"This is a state law that the City of Flint does not agree with," Weaver said. "The little person is cut out of this, it does not support the start up of small business owners. Also the fee structure, $54,000 will go to the state and the City of Flint only gets $5,000."
The drafted ordinance would limit marijuana facilities to five licensed secure transporters, five licensed safety compliance centers and 20 limited dispensaries in the city -- minus the number of current licensed medical marijuana dispensaries.
Dispensaries would be limited to operating between 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday.
The co-location of a center with a grow or processing facility is permitted if the co-located facility is a minimum of 30,000 square feet.
Drive through windows in a dispensary will not allowed and no consumption of alcohol, marijuana or tobacco is allowed on the property.
Inspection of the dispensary is allowed at any time. Security cameras will be required and must meet Flint Project C.A.T.T. EYE specs -- a project started by city police to surveillance businesses.
Medical marijuana centers will be allowed to operate 500 feet away from schools, public parks and places of worship and 300 feet from residential zoning districts.
According to a draft of the ordinance, at no time will the dispensary be open to the general public. All marijuana must be contained in an enclosed, locked facility.
The proposed revenue for the City of Flint from a dispensary will include a local application fee of $1,500, an annual licensing fee of $5,000, a site plan review fee of $1,002 and a location appeals fee of $5,000.
A licensed individual may appeal a location not listed on the Marihuana Facilities Licensing Map developed by the Planning and Zoning Division.
In order to appeal the location map, the individual's case will be heard by the Flint Planning Commission where they must demonstrate an "undue hardship," and "prove that special and unique conditions pertaining to the piece of of property in question are warranted: for a variance to be granted."
The individual must also pay a non-refundable $5,000 fee.
Below is the a presentation that was given to council on the draft of the City of Flint Medical Marihuana Provisioning Center ordinance |
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Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:31 am |
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untanglingwebs
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| Sometimes you look at a campaign finance report and you just know something is wrong. Like a council member with no previous fundraisers just happens to have one in which most participants pay $250. Add to that the participants are mostly listed as independent contractors with no business name and often only a home address. And it appears that most are in the cannabis business. If this is legal lobbying under Flint ordinance, why all the subterfuge? |
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Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:39 am |
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