Provo, UT Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)

" Every other permitted use in the broader A1 zone excludes cannabis production establishments outright, meaning the city carved out a single narrow agricultural subzone specifically to accommodate them rather than allowing them across the whole A1 district. 020 defines "cannabis production establishment" by reference to Utah Code Title 4, Chapter 41a, meaning a cannabis cultivation facility, cannabis processing facility, or independent cannabis testing laboratory, the industrial and lab side of the state's medical cannabis program rather than retail dispensaries. 020 lists use 2830 as "Drugs (cannabis production establishments only)" among the Freeway Industrial (FI) zone's permitted uses, while other industrial-zone use tables in the code (such as the M1 Light Manufacturing use list) explicitly list use 2830 as "Drugs (except cannabis production establishments)," carving cannabis production out of the general industrial drug-manufacturing category and steering it into the specific zones where it is separately authorized.

Because Utah's medical cannabis pharmacies (the retail dispensary equivalent) are licensed and sited under a different state regime and are not listed as a permitted use in any Provo zoning table reviewed, Provo's own code addresses only the cultivation/processing/testing-lab tier of the cannabis supply chain, confining it to designated agricultural and industrial land rather than commercial or residential zones.