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NO. 18-120
CANNABIS RETAIL STORE LICENSING CONSULTATION POLICY AND FEE BYLAW
A BYLAW OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA
The purpose of this Bylaw is to establish a process for the City to provide a recommendation to
the Provincial Government for a cannabis retail store licence application referral, and to
establish fees to recover the City's costs incurred in the course of work on a referral.
Contents
Title
Definitions
Public Consultation Method
Fees
Effective Date
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2
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4
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Under its statutory powers, including section 33 of the Cannabis Control and Licensing Act, the
Council of the Corporation of the City of Victoria, in an open meeting assembled, enacts the
following provisions:
Title
This Bylaw may be cited as the "CANNABIS RETAIL STORE LICENSING
CONSULTATION POLICY AND FEE BYLAW'.
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Definitions
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In this Bylaw
"Act"
means the Cannabis Control and Licensing Act;
"City"
means the Corporation of the City of Victoria;
"Council"
means the Council of the Corporation of the City of Victoria;
"general manager"
has the same meaning as under the Act;
"licence"
has the same meaning as under the Act;
"licence application referral"
means a referral to the City by the general manager of an application for the
issue, amendment, or renewal of a licence under section 33 of the Act.
Public Consultation Method
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(D
Subject to subsection (4), after receiving a licence application referral the City will
(a)
notify the neighbourhood association for the area to which the licence
application referral relates to; and
(b)
provide a written notice of the licence application referral to the owners
and occupants of the properties located within 100 metres from the
property to which the licence application referral relates; and
(c)
after considering any written responses received, provide to the general
manager comments and recommendations on the licence application
referral, including Council's views on the impact of the proposed
application on the community.
(2)
The notice referred to in subsection (1) shall be mailed out at least 14 days
before Council considers the licence application referral.
(3)
The obligation to give notice under subsection (1) is satisfied if the City made a
reasonable effort to mail or otherwise deliver the notice.
(4)
The City shall be under no obligation to provide notice or consider a licence
application referral until after it has received
(a)
confirmation from the general manager that the general manager has
made a determination in accordance with section 26(2)(e) of the Act and
the applicant has been found to be fit and proper; and
(b)
the applicant has paid to the City the fees under section 4.
Fees
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For the purpose of recovering the costs, the applicant whose licence application is
referred to the City must pay to the City the following fees:
(a)
a $750 processing fee; and
(b)
the City's actual costs for providing notice under section 3(1).
Effective Date
This bylaw comes into force on adoption.
5
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8th
2018.
day of
November
READ A FIRST TIME the
8th
2018.
day of
November
READ A SECOND TIME the
8th
2018.
day of
November
READ A THIRD TIME the
22nd
day of
2018.
November
ADOPTED on the
" LISA HELPS"
MAYOR
" CHRIS COATES"
CITY CLERK