Bolingbrook, IL Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)

Sec. 54-610(10)(a) requires all cannabis business establishments within the village to obtain a special use permit processed under article IX of the zoning ordinance, meaning no cannabis operation is a use allowed by right in any district. Subsection (b) lets the village condition approval on building enhancements such as added security cameras, lighting, extra parking, or landscape screening to protect employee and customer safety. Subsection (c) permits limited co-location: craft growers, infusers, and transporters may share a site; cultivation centers, infusers, and transporters may share a site; and dispensaries, infusers, and transporters may share a site, but a cultivation center cannot co-locate with a dispensary.

Subsection (d) flatly bars operating any cannabis business establishment unless it is authorized under both state law and the village code. Subsection (e) directs the Plan Commission to weigh, on top of the general special use standards in Sec. 54-609, the facility's impact on nearby uses, its building's square footage and security and odor-control plans, hours of operation and expected customer and employee counts, parking demand, traffic generation, and site circulation and loading before recommending approval. This licensing layer runs alongside the separate cannabis business license required under Chapter 12, Division 9, so an operator needs both the zoning special use permit and the business license, plus its state registration from the Illinois Department of Agriculture or Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, before opening.