Dade City, FL Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)
Key Facts
- Where allowed by right
- Commercial General (CG) district only
- Where allowed conditionally
- COMM and EC planned developments
- Everywhere else
- Prohibited, blank cell in Table 4.1-2
- Licensing authority
- State of Florida, Fla. Stat. ch. 381.986
Summary
Dade City confines Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers to its Commercial General (CG) zoning district under Table 4.1-2 of the Land Development Regulations, with the use additionally allowed inside the COMM and EC planned development districts. Florida law, not city ordinance, governs licensing of the facilities themselves.
OUA RS1 RS2 RS3 RG1 RG2 RIO RIO CN CBD CG CH ILW IH COMM R TND EC ... Medical Marijuana Treatment Center P A A ... A facility as regulated by the State of Florida and defined by Chapter 381.986, F.S.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 18 | Land Development Regulations: Supplement 1).
Full Breakdown
,' leaving state law to set licensing, security and dispensing standards. 1-2, the Table of Allowed Uses, lists Medical Marijuana Treatment Center as a permitted ('P') use only in the Commercial General (CG) zoning district, and as an allowed ('A') use within the COMM and EC planned development districts. 1(D) means the use is allowed within that particular planned development district subject to the standards for planned development approval. 1(E). The Use Table does not list a separate use-specific standards section for treatment centers beyond this permitted-use classification, so a proposed dispensary in the CG district otherwise complies with the same site plan, parking, landscaping, signage and lighting standards that apply to any other permitted commercial use in that zone. , before the city's Building Official will issue a certificate of use.
Violations & Fines
Operating a Medical Marijuana Treatment Center outside the Commercial General district, or inside a COMM or EC planned development without the required planned-development approval, is a zoning violation enforced by the Community Development Director, who can deny or revoke a certificate of use and require the operator to relocate to a conforming district.
Frequently Asked Questions
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