Aurora, IL Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)
Key Facts
- Citywide dispensary cap
- 4 conditional uses
- School buffer
- 750 feet, property line to line
- Dispensary-to-dispensary spacing
- 1.5 miles
- Hours
- 8 a.m.-10 p.m. only
Summary
Aurora, Illinois caps adult-use cannabis dispensaries at four citywide, each needing a conditional use permit and a 750-foot school buffer, per City Code § 49-104.3.
On or after January 1, 2020, no more than four (4) adult use cannabis dispensary conditional uses, may be established within the corporate limits... Facilities shall not be located within seven hundred and fifty feet (750'), measured from property line to property line, of a grade school, middle school, alternative school, or high school.
Full Breakdown
Aurora allows Cannabis Dispensing Facilities as a conditional use in PDD Planned Development Districts within business and industrial areas, but limits the city to no more than four adult-use dispensary conditional uses since January 1, 2020, two of which are reserved for social equity candidates. Dispensaries must sit on an arterial street, cannot locate within 1.5 miles of another dispensary in the city, must stay at least 750 feet from any school and cannot be adjacent to a licensed day care. Hours are capped at 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., and on-site consumption is banned.
Violations & Fines
Opening or expanding a dispensary without a conditional use permit, or in a location that breaches the school, day-care or spacing buffers, violates the zoning ordinance and can void the conditional use approval.
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