Port Orange, FL Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)

The Port Orange Land Development Code does not create a stand-alone 'medical marijuana dispensary' zoning category. Instead, Chapter 2, Section 2 defines 'retail pharmacy' to expressly include 'a licensed medical marijuana treatment center dispensing facility operating in accordance with state law,' folding dispensaries into the broader 'retail sales and services' use group. Retail sales and services is listed as a permitted, by-right use in Chapter 17's Community Commercial (CC) district at Section 21, and the same use also appears on the permitted-use lists for the Highway Commercial (HC), Interchange Commercial Development (ICD) and Ridgewood Development (RD) districts. That means a state-licensed dispensary can open in any of those commercial zones without a special exception, conditional-use permit, or separate marijuana-specific site plan review beyond the standard development plan process every retail tenant follows.

On the growing and processing side, the code does not carry a matching permitted-use entry for medical marijuana cultivation or processing facilities in any industrial district; those terms appear only in Chapter 12's parking-demand schedule, which sets a space ratio but does not itself authorize the use, so siting a cultivation or processing operation depends on qualifying under an existing manufacturing or agricultural use classification.

Port Orange briefly considered a local ban. Ordinance No. 2014-17 imposed a moratorium on medical marijuana related facilities and activities, codified as former Chapter 16, Section 13, but Ordinance No. 2017-28, Section 3, adopted September 19, 2017, repealed that moratorium outright, leaving the section reserved. The city has adopted no opt-out under Florida's medical marijuana framework since.