Public hearings will cover massage businesses, marijuana cultivation
The La Cañada Flintridge City Council will conduct public hearings at its next regular meeting Tuesday, seeking input on proposals to repeal a 22-month ban on approving permits for massage establishments, regulate the indoor personal cultivation of marijuana and create a master fee schedule to consolidate all city permit and process fees.
A moratorium on businesses offering massage was initially passed as an urgency ordinance in April 2015 and extended by 22 months and 15 days that June to give city officials time to determine how to regulate such services after the state handed down the responsibility to municipalities last year. Planning commissioners met last month and recommended an amendment clarifying such regulations.
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At that same Nov. 8 meeting, commissioners approved an ordinance outlining a two-step process for residents wishing to obtain a marijuana cultivation permit, including submitting an application and acquiring an inspection by the Division of Building and Safety and the L.A. County Fire Department.
The regulatory effort came in anticipation of the passage of California’s Proposition 64, which legalized personal marijuana use, possession and cultivation, preempting local control.
Those and other topics will be discussed at the meeting, which takes place in City Hall Council Chambers Tuesday at 6 p.m., 1327 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada. For more, visit www.lcf.ca.gov.
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Sara Cardine, sara.cardine@latimes.com
Twitter: @SaraCardine
