Casa Grande, AZ Cannabis Regulations: Buffer Zones (2026)

Casa Grande's Article VII on marijuana uses, applicable to every dispensary, cultivation facility, or other marijuana use under § 17.52.570, sets the city's buffer standard in § 17.52.600. Distances are measured in a straight line from the boundary of the parcel holding the marijuana use to the boundary of the parcel holding the protected use, not from building to building or by walking route. The separations are five hundred feet from any other marijuana use (with a specific exception letting a dispensary co-locate in the same building as a cultivation facility), five hundred feet from a substance abuse treatment or rehabilitation facility, five hundred feet from any residentially zoned, used, or platted property, five hundred feet from a public library or park, a church or religious institution, or any airport, and the largest buffer, one thousand feet, from a public or private school or a daycare serving minor children.

These distances work alongside the operational standards in § 17.52.590, which require every marijuana use to sit in a stand-alone or securely partitioned building, run a monitored alarm, and post a current city business license, and they apply on top of, not instead of, the Marijuana Dispensary Overlay Zone boundaries set in § 17.52.610.