Farmington Hills, MI Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)

Section 18-9 exercises the opt-out authority that the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, Initiated Law 1 of 2018 (MCL 333.27951 et seq.), grants to municipalities under its Section 6(1), MCL 333.27956(1). Rather than adopting a zoning overlay that channels marihuana businesses into specific districts, the city chose a blanket prohibition: subsection (c) states that pursuant to the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, all marihuana establishments are prohibited within the boundaries of the City of Farmington Hills. The ordinance adopts the state act's own definitions for terms like marihuana establishment, so the ban reaches every license category the state act recognizes, including retailers, growers, processors, microbusinesses, safety compliance facilities and secure transporters, not just retail dispensaries.

The ordinance was adopted by Ordinance No. C-8-2019 on May 13, 2019, and its intent clause expressly reserves the city's ability to revisit the prohibition later without needing to repeal and re-enact the section; subsection (a) states that adoption of the ban does not preclude the city from further studying and revisiting the issue at a future date. Because the prohibition is citywide rather than district-by-district, there is no zoning-map answer to where a marihuana business could locate in Farmington Hills: none of the city's residential, business, office or industrial districts permit the use. A violation of the prohibition is a municipal civil infraction under subsection (d), punishable as set out in Chapter 1 of the Code.