With the growing popularity of marijuana retail after its recent legalization, many cities across Michigan have updated their position on dispensaries, and the City of Utica is one of the most recent to make a change. The “Marihuana Business Ordinance” was unanimously adopted at the city’s Jan. 14 city council meeting, allowing for two retail licences for marijuana to be sold within Utica’s city limits, as well as one grow facility.
“A group representing a prospective marijuana business owner went door-to-door and collected signatures via a petition. The petition was then presented to the City. Council was faced with adopting the ordinance, or rejecting it and thus having it put on the ballot by law,” Mayor Thom Dionne said. “The ordinance was very limited and gave the city very little ability to regulate the candidates for licensing.”
In response, the council passed its own ordinance, which will allow for two licenses for retail marijuana to open in the area south of Hall Road (M-59) and west of Van Dyke Avenue.
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