Sandpit
Active Member
nor any other kind of land use. Municipalities are only allowed to regulate land uses, not prohibit them. There have been some extensive legal cases of municipalities trying to ban things like wind turbines by either prohibiting the use in the zoning by-law or placing such strict restrictions that it becomes impossible to actually operate the use (I.e. one municipality put in place a regulation that a wind turbine must be 5km from a public road, while there was not a single location in the entire municipality that met that condition). If a marijuana dispensary is legal on the provincial level, it must be permitted in the zoning by-law in some capacity. Now of course, it can be very limited in its potential locations.. but must have some sort of ability to operate.
It's bad politics to do it so close to an election.