Nearly two years after Costa Mesa officials approved an ordinance regulating the sale of retail cannabis dispensaries — agreeing to see how the rules played out as a local marketplace matured — it appears a municipal tune-up may be in order.
City Council members are poised Tuesday to open the hood on the ordinance, considering what has and hasn’t worked, now that 18 enterprises, including 10 retail shops, have received the cannabis business permits necessary to open, and the fate of another 31 applications still hangs in the balance.
The panel will consider a set of recommendations offered by the Costa Mesa Planning Commission, which did the yeoman’s work of logging resident concerns and discussing possible amendments over the course of three public hearings in November, December and January.
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