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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Seattle City Council OKs rules to allow pot shops in more neighborhoods, closer to parks 🌿Seattle City Council OKs rules to allow pot shops in more neighborhoods, closer to parks
Seattle will reduce buffer zones in some places while trying to keep the stores from clustering in some neighborhoods. The plan to allow additional shops, however, may not work as intended.
Legal pot businesses would be allowed in more parts of Seattle under rules approved Monday by the City Council.
Mayor Ed Murray proposed relaxing state-imposed buffers between pot shops and some sensitive areas, such as parks and arcades. As required by state law, the buffers would remain at 1,000 feet between pot businesses and schools and playgrounds.
Murray’s aim was to accommodate new shops the state will license as it tries to fold medical-marijuana dispensaries into its system for recreational stores, while trying to keep them from clustering.
The state Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) has proposed doubling the number of legal retail stores in Seattle from 21 to 42. Murray’s plan would add about 1,600 acres of available land...
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