Retail in Redondo? City seeks cannabis ordinance
Redondo Beach took a step closer last week to allowing retail marijuana, with a 5-0 city council vote to accept the recommendations of the Cannabis Steering Committee. The city attorney will now draft an ordinance, for up to two stores, with a five percent tax to go to the general fund. Included in the vote, byway of councilman Nils Nehrenheim, is for any stores to be clear of walking paths to schools, to add the South Bay Galleria as an option for a dispensary, and to invite organizers of a retail marijuana initiative to address the council. “I’m certainly open to the retail option,” said Mayor Bill Brand, who was not in attendance at the Oct. 5 meeting. “But the devil is in the details…. I won’t be supporting something the community doesn’t support.” The seven-member Redondo Beach Cannabis Steering Committee (CSC) was formed in 2018, after recreational marijuana was legalized statewide. “The 5-0 vote is definitely good news,” said Jonathan Cvetko, CSC member and executive director of the United Business Cannabis Association, based in Los Angeles. Cvetko lives in Redondo Beach. “But it was concerning to me that the councilmembers went out of their way to invite (the initiative…
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