Flagler County, FL Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)

Sec. ' The county adopted the prohibition through Ordinance No. 2018-01, Section 2, on January 8, 2018, using the local opt-out authority available to counties and municipalities under Florida's medical marijuana implementing statute. Because the ban applies district-wide rather than through a use table, it displaces the normal zoning analysis that governs other commercial uses elsewhere in Article III of the Land Development Code: there is no district, including the county's commercial and industrial zones, where a dispensing facility can be sited as a permitted use, an accessory use, or through a special exception.

The prohibition reaches only 'dispensing facilities,' the retail point where product is sold or dispensed to a qualified patient; it does not, on its face, reach every activity a licensed medical marijuana treatment center may otherwise conduct, such as cultivation or processing at a separate site, which would instead be evaluated under the county's agricultural or industrial district use tables. The ban does not extend into Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Beverly Beach or Bunnell, each of which sets its own dispensary policy under its own zoning code.