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Cannabis, City of Benicia

City of Benicia releases carefully worded cannabis update

PRESS RELEASE CITY OF BENICIA City Manager 250 East L Street, Benicia, California 94510 Contact: Lorie Tinfow, City Manager, (707) 746-4200, ltinfow@ci.benicia.ca.us City of Benicia Stays on Path to Allow Retail Cannabis Business Number of businesses reduced to one that will be selected from existing set of nine proposals. Benicia, CA (June 20, 2019) — … Continue reading City of Benicia releases carefully worded cannabis update →

Benicia City Council, Cannabis

Benicia City Council reverses cannabis ban – votes to approve one retail outlet

Brief report by email from City Council member Steve Young this morning: “The Council voted 3-2, (Largaespada and Strawbridge opposed) to allow for one retail dispensary. Staff was directed to rank order the applications and to present to Planning Commission for action. If the Planning Commission approves one of the nine existing applications, after review … Continue reading Benicia City Council reverses cannabis ban – votes to approve one retail outlet →

Keeping Watch on Earth News, Local land use authority, ORCEM, Vallejo Marine Terminal

After five years of wasting scarce city resources: Vallejo Marine Terminal / Orcem postmortem

By Jeff Carlson, Vallejo Times-Herald, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR May 28, 2019 at 2:57 pm [Editor: Jeff Carlson provides an excellent summary here of the VMT/Orcem debacle.  As Steve Young wrote on a Facebook thread, “Benicia had Crude By Rail, Vallejo had Orcem/VMT, and with enough committed people, sometimes the little guys win.”  – R.S.] … Continue reading After five years of wasting scarce city resources: Vallejo Marine Terminal / Orcem postmortem →