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Antioch temporarily halts new retail cannabis businesses [East Bay Times]
Jan. 27 To avoid saturating the market, Antioch has put a temporary halt to approving new retail cannabis businesses.
The City Council on Tuesday passed an urgency ordinance that will keep the ban in effect at least 45 days.
Antioch already has approved five such dispensaries and there’s another one that’s almost completed the permit process. Four are in the city’s northwestern green zone where such businesses are allowed and another is in the Wilbur corridor, another cannabis-allowed zone.
Mayor Lamar Thorpe, who asked for the emergency ordinance, said it’s needed to give the city’s cannabis committee time to consider other options, such as creating a new overlay district where cannabis retail could operate.