Perris, CA Cannabis Regulations: Buffer Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Buffer distance
- 600 feet from listed uses
- Protected uses
- School, park, church, residential zone, day care
- Measured
- Property line to property line
- Zone limit
- LI/GI subareas only, Ch. 19.44
- Type 7 extra limit
- No siting in March ARB APZs
- Permit + state license
- Both required, Sec. 5.58.126(a)
- Violation
- Permit suspension/revocation, Sec. 5.58.150
Summary
A commercial cannabis manufacturing operation in Perris cannot locate within 600 feet of a school, park, place of worship, residential zone, youth-oriented facility, youth center or day care center, measured property line to property line, under Perris Municipal Code Section 5.58.126(c)(2), part of the city's Commercial Marijuana Operations Regulatory Program.
2.No manufacturing operation shall locate within six hundred (600) feet of a school, park, place of worship, residential zone, youth-oriented facility, youth center or day care center. The distance shall be measured as the horizontal distance measured in a straight line from the property line of one site to the property line of another site.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 13).
Full Breakdown
126(a)), and state health and safety regulations apply as a floor on top of the city's own rules (subsection (b)). Location restrictions in subsection (c) work in three layers. 44: north of Perry Street to the city limits between the Perris Valley Storm Drain Channel and the I-215 Freeway in North Perris, or north of Watson Road and south of Ellis Avenue between the storm drain channel and the Santa Fe Railroad in South Perris. Second, subsection (c)(2), the buffer at issue here, bars any manufacturing operation from locating within 600 feet of a school, park, place of worship, residential zone, youth-oriented facility, youth center or day care center, with the distance measured as the horizontal distance in a straight line from one site's property line to the other's.
Third, a Manufacturer 2 (Type 7) permittee, the category using solvent-based closed-loop extraction systems, cannot locate or operate within the Accident Potential Zones around March Air Reserve Base at all (subsection (c)(3)). Manufacturers must also meet detailed health-and-safety conditions before opening, including director-approved fire safety plans, a certified industrial hygienist's hazard plan, and an automatic fire sprinkler system, and the site must stay indoors, secured and hidden from public view.
Violations & Fines
Operating a manufacturing site inside the 600-foot buffer violates the permit conditions of Chapter 5.58, and Perris Municipal Code Section 5.58.150 lets the director suspend or revoke the commercial marijuana operation permit for any failure to comply with the chapter. Section 5.58.160 makes any violation punishable as a misdemeanor or infraction under Chapter 1.16, subject to administrative citation under Chapter 1.18, and declares the operation a public nuisance abatable under Chapter 7.06, with each day of the violation a separate offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
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