City Council

22. Request by Councilmember Robinson and Councilmember Joyce to direct staff to develop a program to offer four permits to storefront cannabis sales in the City of Oceanside. All current regulations to remain the same with the exception of on-site sales and newly generated tax revenue. To apply for a permit, an organization would need to meet agreed upon minimum standards for viability and safety. The newly generated tax revenue would be directed exclusively for youth development programs including, but not limited to, community resource center programming, parks and recreation scholarships for at-promise youth, job training, improvements to parks in low- income neighborhoods, gang prevention programming, research-based drug use prevention programs, etc.