San Jacinto, CA Cannabis Regulations: Buffer Zones (2026)

Section 17.435.040 of the San Jacinto Municipal Code sets the development standards for cannabis-oriented businesses in the City of San Jacinto, Riverside County, California, and deems them conditions of every cannabis-oriented business permit. Failure to comply is grounds for revocation of the permit.

The school, day care and youth center buffer is 600 feet and appears three times. For outdoor cultivation, no use can be established within 600 feet of a school providing instruction in kindergarten or any grades 1 through 12, a day care center, or a youth center, and the distance runs from the nearest property line of the site containing the business to the nearest property line of the school, day care or youth center. For indoor cultivation, the same 600 feet applies to an existing school, day care center or youth center, measured from the building containing the business. Dispensaries carry their own 600-foot rule, stated notwithstanding the other proximity standards, again measured from the building containing the dispensary. Every measurement is in a straight line, without regard to the boundaries of the City and intervening structures, so a school across the City line counts.

Residences have separate buffers. Outdoor cultivation cannot be within 100 feet of any residence, excluding residences on the permit parcel, and outdoor cultivation within 200 feet of a residence is limited to an enclosed greenhouse with sufficient odor control mechanisms. Indoor cannabis-oriented businesses cannot be within 100 feet of any residential dwelling. The proximity standards printed in this section name schools, day care centers, youth centers and residences; they do not name parks.

Other siting limits sit alongside the buffers. Outdoor cultivation is permitted only on parcels west of North Sanderson Avenue and north of Cottonwood Avenue, on parcels of at least two acres. Indoor uses are placed by the allowed-uses tables for Commercial and Office Zones and Industrial Zones. Dispensaries cannot be within 500 feet of another dispensary, are limited to 3,500 square feet with a public dispensing area not exceeding 1,500 square feet, cannot operate between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., and are allowed only as an ancillary use to an operational cultivation or manufacturing business.