Apparently the city’s current zoning code, dispensaries are prohibited under the usage criteria. City staffers will be making recommendations to the City Council after studying and evaluating regulatory options for the medical marijuana dispensaries in relation to the city codes. They will also consider impacts from how dispensaries are treated and operated in other cities in Orange County and statewide, said Simonian.

According to Simonian, after two dispensaries opened within the city, and other requests were received from additional dispensaries looking to open within city limits, a request to issue the moratorium was brought to the City Council.

We wonder how this compares to our recent case against the City of Lake Elsinore, although our client had opened their medical marijuana dispensary on a city-issued business license, and was not a zoning issue. We would welcome any questions or calls from the two dispensaries currently operating in Rancho Santa Margarita, as we’ve been successful in defending others in similar cases.

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