Pinal County, AZ Cannabis Regulations: Buffer Zones (2026)

Development Services Code Sec. 010(A)(5) lists six separate 1,500-foot buffers that apply on top of the county's ten-mile dispensary-to-dispensary separation. ' Subsection (d) requires the same 1,500 feet from a childcare center; subsection (e) from a library or public park; subsection (f) from a church; and subsection (g) from a residential substance abuse diagnostic and treatment facility or other drug or alcohol rehabilitation facility. Sec. 010(A)(1) separately sets the minimum public notification area for any dispensary or establishment application at 1,500 feet, meaning every property owner within that radius of the proposed site must be notified before the special use permit hearing.

The same 1,500-foot notification area applies to off-site marijuana cultivation locations and testing facilities under Sec. 010(C)(1), even though those facilities may not sell or transfer product to consumers on site. None of these buffers is measured from the building; the code specifies measurement from parcel boundaries, so a large parcel can push the buffer line closer to a protected use than the building footprint would suggest. An applicant's supplemental submission under Sec. 150.