5.10.180 Permittee selection process.

(A) The city council shall adopt a procedure guideline and review criteria by which the top applicants in each category of each commercial cannabis business shall be evaluated in a final determination by the city manager.

(B) At least ten days prior to the public hearing, notice of the public hearing shall be sent to all property owners located within six hundred feet of the proposed business locations of each of the finalists to be considered by the city manager.

(C) The city manager shall either deny or approve the final candidates and shall select the top candidates in each category of the commercial cannabis businesses. The city manager's decision as to the selection of the prevailing candidates may be appealed to the city council.

(D) Issuance of a commercial cannabis business permit does not create a land use entitlement. The commercial cannabis business permit shall only be for a term of twelve months and shall expire at the end of the twelve month period unless it is renewed as provided herein. Furthermore, no permittee may begin operations, notwithstanding the issuance of a permit, unless all of the state and local laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the requirements of this chapter and of the permit, have been complied with. Until a state license is available and obtained by the permitted operator as set forth in Section 5.10.160.

(E) If an application is denied, a new application may not be filed for one year from the date of the denial.

(F) Each person granted a commercial cannabis business permit shall be required to pay the permit fee established by resolution of the city council, to cover the costs of administering the commercial cannabis business permit program created in this chapter.