- Ben Livingston
- Snohomish County Proposed Pot Zoning
As more and more city and county councils enact I-502 moratoriums, a few cities and counties have taken steps to proactively set zoning for future legal cannabis businesses. Snohomish County is actively considering where to allow such businesses, and the county planning department will meet on the matter tonight at 5:30 p.m. A county council hearing is scheduled for tomorrow morning at tomorrow at 10:30 a.m.
Snohomish County is slated to have 35 retail pot shops, with 16 of them in unincorporated parts of the county. The planning department released proposed legal pot zoning regulations which will help those pot businesses figure out where to lease. The catch? Pot shops will be allowed in 0.58% of the county-controlled zoning. That’s a total of 11.23 square miles of unincorporated Snohomish County where a cannabis retailer may locate.
The Snohomish County Planning Department cannabis zoning meeting is 5:30 p.m. tonight in the first floor meeting room at 3000 Rockefeller Ave in Everett. Tomorrow’s 10:30 a.m. county council meeting is in the same building on the 8th floor.