09/11/2017 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Agenda Packet

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Draft#6 September 7, 2017 Explanation: This article would place a temporary moratorium on recreational marijuana establishments and marijuana retailers to allow the Town adequate time and opportunity to consider and adopt appropriate local Bylaws and regulations relative to such uses. The moratorium would run until December 31, 2018. The Town will review (yet to be adopted) Cannabis. Control Commission regulations regarding such uses and establishments, study the effects of such structures and uses, engage in a public planning process, and adopt appropriate zoning provisions prior to'the expiration of the moratorium. In the event that this moratorium Bylaw is approved by the Town Meeting, consideration of Article 14 will be unnecessary at this time and the Board of Selectmen will recommend that no action be taken with respect thereto, The Board of Selectmen recommends Town Meeting approval by a vote of x-x The Finance Committee does not recommend Town Meeting approval by a vote of 5-0 Article 14 (D#6) (General Bylaw limitingthe number of Retail Marijuana Establishments) To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following Bylaw relative to limitihk the number.of retail marijuana estab.l_ishments to less than_20% of the'-number of liquor ticenses in the Town; or take any other action' relating thereto An amendment to the General Bylaws as follows Purpose - By-vote approving Question 4 at the State'-el eicti b__n- on November 8, 2016, the voters of the Corp'monwealth approved a law` .allowing .the non-medical cultivatiori, distribution, possession and use of marijuana.for recreational purposes. Said ballot measure was amended effective December 15, 2016 by.Chapter 334 of:the Acts'of 2016 and, thereafter,.on July 28, 2017.by Chapter 55 of the Acts of 2017. The Cannabis Control Commission, created and authorized thereby, is required to*issue regulations regarding implementation-of said law by July 1, 2018. The law is codified at G.L. c: 94G. Section 3 of Chapter 94G provides that municipalities may limit the number of marijuana retailers to fewerthan twenty percent(20%) of the number of liquor licenses within Town for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises where sold in accordance with G.L. C. 138. Definitions "Manufacture", to compound, blend, extract, infuse or otherwise make or prepare a marijuana product. "Marijuana accessories",equipment, products, devices or materials of any kind that are intended or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging; storing, containing, ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing marijuana into the human body. 10