City of Lethbridge preparing for pot legalization
LETHBRIDGE – Now that the provincial government has released its regulations on cannabis sales for private retailers, the City of Lethbridge will be working towards incorporating those requirements.
Director of Planning and Management, Jeff Greene, says there’s a lot of work to be done in the coming months.
“We’ve been anticipating this from the province for some time, so in the meantime we’ve been doing our own research to get ready for whatever it might entail.
“Now that the rules are a little bit more clear from what the province is expecting, we’ll be taking that information and seeing how we can marry that with local land-use bylaw requirements. So, there will likely end up being some local land-use bylaw changes that we’ll introduce to City Council in the summertime, in all likelihood, just to be ready for the retail permissions, if you will, that are going to be allowed in the province.”