In my last post “What really just happened to Cannabis in San Jose..“,
I screamed like Chicken Little, “the sky is falling!”.

Thankfully, we can all say.. I was wrong!

I just got a email with real clarification from the agenda staff.

At 10am today, they also posted the synopsis of the 6/22 meeting:
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/Agenda/20100622/20100622syn.pdf

They did not pass the urgency land use.

They did approve Mayor Reed and Council Member Oliverios’ memo.

posted on 6/18:  http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/Agenda/20100622/20100622_0310att.pdf

> The memorandum from Mayor Reed and Council Member Oliverio, dated June 18, 2010 was approved:
> (1) With regard to collectives that are currently located in San José, direction is given to focus enforcement on the closure of any collective that is within 500 feet from sensitive uses in the staff report and/or any collective located outside the CG Commercial General Zoning District. Staff was further directed to return to Council with:.

Sensitive uses are: a residential use, school, child day care center, church that includes a school or child day care use, community or recreation center, park, trail, library, substance abuse rehabilitation center or another Medical Marijuana Collective

The number of locations where CG Zoning is not within 500 feet of a sensitive uses is pretty small. The fact is, code enforcement has something to enforce now… Should be fun to see what their next move will be.

.. it looks like the sky isn’t falling just yet..

Sorry for all the confusion.

Best Regards,
Dave Hodges