Wylie, TX Business Licensing & Operations: Tobacco Retail License (2026)

Wylie's Smoke and Head Shop Provisions, Appendix B Section 7.11, regulate where businesses can sell smoking, vaping, or cannabis-related products, defined broadly to include cigarettes, cigars, e-cigarettes, pipes, hookahs, bongs, tobacco, vape cartridges, chewing tobacco, and legal cannabis products such as oils, edibles, tinctures, concentrates, and topicals. Section 7.11.A.1 grandfathers only those properties already selling these products before the ordinance's adoption date; any property that wants to start selling them afterward must first obtain a Special Use Permit (SUP) from the City. Sections 7.11.A.2 and A.3 impose a 300-foot buffer, measured along the property lines of the street fronts from front door to front door and across intersections, between such a retailer and any church, public hospital, public school, or private school.

Section 7.11.A.4 ties the SUP to the specific owner, lessee, or applicant named on it: an SUP is not approval for the use in perpetuity, and if the named business ceases operating, the property reverts to its base zoning and the smoke-shop use ends with it. A property owner who believes the 300-foot buffer works an undue hardship can appeal to the City Council for a distance variance under Section 7.11.B, using the same public-interest and hardship standard the ordinance applies to its parallel alcohol-sales distance rules; an approved variance becomes part of the Special Use Permit itself. The provision was adopted by Ordinance No. 2025-14, effective April 8, 2025.