AUGUST 19, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7
Councilors deny repeal of city’s Drop off unused
school supplies at
marijuana distancing rules
“The task
Keizer
businesses
force chose
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer City Council
stuck to its guns when a local
business owner requested
the city repeal distancing
requirements on marijuana
shops.
The issue of how to regulate
marijuana shops ended up on
the council agenda again at its
meeting Monday, Aug. 15, as
the owner of Keizer Nursery
on River Road made her case
for converting her space into a
pot shop.
“The retail nursery industry
is dwindling and affecting my
ability to remain in business,”
said Cyndi Michael, who has
operated Keizer nursery for
several years. “I applied for my
state license back in March,
but in July (Oregon Health
Authority) licensed a dispensary
700 feet from my business.”
Current
Keizer
rules
regulating marijuana shops,
regardless of whether they
sell medical or recreational
marijuana, require a separation
of 1,000 feet from any other
marijuana seller and 1,500 feet
from any school.
Michael urged the council to
drop the distancing requirement
and bring the Keizer rules into
line with the state’s guidelines.
Under state rules, a medicinal
seller and recreation seller could
set up side-by-side and there is
no separation requirement at
all for how close recreational
sellers can be to each other.
Confl icting rules at the state
level, particularly because two
different government agencies
are performing the licensing,
have resulted in a hodgepodge
of local regulation around the
state. The City of Salem threw
up its hands in the matter,
deciding only to require the
business owners to register their
shops and allowing whatever
the state decides to prevail in
other matters.
Michael said the city would
benefi t from the increase in
licensing fees and that she hoped
to refl ect how
the citizens of
Keizer voted.”
— Mark Cailier
City Councilor
to grow her business to include
fi ve employees. She currently
only has one other than herself.
Keizer City Councilor Mark
Caillier was one of the fi rst to
chime in during discussions.
“We have three current
(marijuana) businesses. Keizer
voted
against
(legalizing
recreational sales), and my
recollection in attending task
force is that we chose to try
and refl ect how the citizens
of Keizer voted,” Caillier said
regarding the reason a distancing
requirement was enacted.
Mayor Cathy Clark echoed
Caillier, “I remember specifi cally
talking about this rule and it
was made with the intention of
regulating the time, place and
manner of recreational sales.”
The 1,500-foot separation
from schools is evidence of
some of the detailed discussions
the task force grappled with.
Because McNary High School
is within 1,000 feet of areas
zoned for recreational sales,
task force members expanded
the distancing requirement to
put them out of easy walking
distance for students – who
wouldn’t be able to legally
purchase marijuana at any rate.
“This is a very diffi cult
balance. We’re dealing with a
longtime business, but we also
know how our community felt
on this issue,” said Councilor
Roland Herrera.
Despite the hesitation,
no one spoke when council
members were offered the
opportunity to make a motion
to repeal the distancing
requirement.
The eighth annual Salem-
Keizer Education Founda-
tion School Supply Drive
kicked off Aug. 1 and runs
through the end of the
month.
The drive goal is restock-
ing the School
Supply Depot, a
permanent,
sus-
tainable resource
that provides year-
round
supplies
to
Salem-Keizer
schools in need.
Community
members can do-
nate school sup-
plies at the more
than 85 businesses
and organizations in Salem
and Keizer. The drive helps
take pressure off local teach-
ers who often pay for school
supplies out of their own
pockets.
Items needed include:
composition
notebooks,
alarm clocks, water color
paints, dry erase markers,
Sharpies, math graph paper,
9-volt batteries, baby wipes,
glue sticks, colored pencils,
scissors, staplers and staples,
paper clips, pencil
sharpeners, printer
paper,
scientifi c
calculators, wood-
en dowels, dividers,
Scotch tape, spiral
notebooks, colored
markers, highlight-
ers, Post-It Notes,
tissues, white glue,
masking tape and
duct tape.
Drop-off sites in
Keizer include: Keizertimes,
Courthouse Athletic Club,
First Tech Federal Credit
Union, Kaiser Permanente,
Oregon State Credit Union,
Starbucks and Town &
Country Lanes.
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