SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio — City Council has approved guidelines for the sale, cultivation and processing of adult recreational marijuana within South Euclid.
The legislation, approved Monday (June 24), adds these rules to those passed in 2016 to regulate medical marijuana businesses.
South Euclid’s recreational cannabis regulations mirror Ohio law in stating that any marijuana business must be located at least 500 feet from any school, playground, library, church or public park.
Also, no such facility shall be located within one mile of another marijuana business.
Ohio voters passed Issue 2 last November to allow the legal dispensing, cultivation and processing of adult recreational cannabis.
The state legislature also allowed for municipalities to decide whether such businesses would be allowed within their borders.
South Euclid is saying yes to such businesses, while some communities — such as Pepper Pike and Mayfield — have prohibited them.
City councils in Richmond Heights and Mayfield Heights have instituted moratoriums and are in the process of deciding whether or not to allow adult recreational marijuana businesses.
South Euclid Director of Planning and Development Michael Love said that, given the distances the new legislation mandates, the city could accommodate as many as three marijuana-related businesses.
Love said the business Certified Cultivations will open soon at 14481 Cedar Road, just east of Green Road, to dispense both medical and adult recreational cannabis in the former Huntington Bank branch building.
“We also have another interested party in dispensing medical and recreational marijuana,” Love said, noting that a location for this possible business has not been determined.
Council approved the legislation by a 5-0 vote, as Council Members Chanell Elston and Joe Frank were not present.
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