Las Cruces allows cannabis retailers as a conditional use in the C-1, C-2, and C-3 commercial zones. Each must sit at least 300 feet from a school or daycare, from a single-family residential zone, and from another retailer. On-site consumption is indoors only and banned in C-1.
The city adopted cannabis zoning in 2021, codified in the Land Development Code (Sections 38-33 and 38-53). Cannabis retailers are a conditional use in the C-1, C-2, and C-3 commercial zones. A retailer must be at least 300 feet from a school or daycare (excepting schools serving those 18 and older), 300 feet from a single-family residential zone, and 300 feet from another retailer, unless a special use permit reduces that separation. On-site consumption is indoors only and prohibited in the C-1 zone. In the M-1/M-2 industrial zones a retailer is allowed only as accessory to a cannabis industry, limited to 5,000 square feet or 49 percent of the building. All establishments must also meet state licensing requirements.
Operating a dispensary without conditional-use approval, or inside a 300-foot buffer without a special use permit, violates the zoning code. The city can deny or revoke the zoning approval and pursue code enforcement; the state can act against the license.
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