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Welcome to the Planning Department

Riverside County, like a quilt, is a composite of differing lifestyles connected together through common strands. The County's General Plan is designed to ensure that the quilt retains its core identity by guiding future growth that respects the diversity of the region, shapes, and configures development in relation to the land it occupies and ensures that its various parts relate to its whole.
It is the goal of the Planning Department to provide timely, responsive, and helpful service to all members of the public and promote innovative development that effectively accommodates a balance of housing, employment, and service opportunities.

DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS!

CANNABIS ORDINANCE UPDATE

The County is proposing to amend portions of Article XIXh – Commercial Cannabis Activities, within Ordinance No. 348 (Land Use Ordinance). The changes are a result of two separate Board of Supervisor initiations, compliance with State law, and industry best practices.

Project Description: Change of Zone No. 2100128 is an amendment to the County’s Land Use Ordinance, Ordinance No. 348, to amend Article XIXh Commercial Cannabis Activities, to update certain provisions related to development standards, operating requirements, enforcement, and revocation. This amendment also proposes to allow for cannabis retailers in the Mixed Use Zone, change from a Variance requirement to a Setback Adjustment, when a cannabis facility proposes to locate closer than 1,000ft to a potentially impacted use, and merge Board of Supervisors existing Policy F7 – Cannabis Retailers within a Commercial Retail Corridor, into Ordinance No. 348, then rescinding Policy F7

Hearing Date: This amendment is being scheduled for the Wednesday, February 1^st Planning Commission

Comments: Comments may be sent to Planning@rivco.org

Proposed Changes: Redline / Strikeout Cannabis Ordinance

*NOTE: The beginning of this Ordinance document includes two residential accessory structure changes as well, as part of an Ordinance clean-up.

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