Arcata Planning Commission considers three options for medical marijuana zone

Three staff recommendations for the proposed Medical Marijuana Innovation Zone will be discussed at Tuesday’s regularly scheduled Arcata Planning Commission meeting.

The zone is intended to create an area in the city where businesses can manufacture, cultivate and process medical marijuana. At the commission meeting on Aug. 22, the commission agreed to include the former Humboldt Flakeboard property and nine other parcels of land off West End Road in Arcata in the zone.

The commission was expected to make a decision on the zone at its meeting on Aug. 22, but after public comment was closed the commission asked staff to look into the feasibility of reducing the amount of allowable growing space per parcel from 25 percent with a 4,000 square foot limit to 10 percent with a 1,000 square foot limit to encourage outdoor and greenhouse cultivation.

Staff is recommending that the initially proposed numbers remain in place....

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