Redding, CA Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)
Key Facts
- Opt-out status
- Redding allows licensed cannabis retail
- Retailer cap
- 10 citywide, § 6.12.390(A)
- Discretion to reduce
- City manager can license fewer than 10
- Unlimited categories
- Cultivators, manufacturers, testing labs, deliverers
- Selection method
- Competitive scored application, § 6.12.400
- Unlicensed sale
- Unlawful public nuisance, § 6.12.380
Summary
Redding has not opted out of commercial cannabis: retail sales are legal citywide under a city license, but Municipal Code Section 6.12.390 caps the number of licensed cannabis retailers at ten, and lets the city manager authorize fewer if needed to protect public health and safety. Unlicensed retail cannabis sales remain a public nuisance under Section 6.12.380.
6.12.380 - Retail sales prohibited. It is unlawful and a public nuisance for any person to sell cannabis goods unless that person has been issued all applicable valid and unexpired licenses for cannabis retail sale by the State of California and the City of Redding. ... 6.12.390 - Number of cannabis retailers licensed. A.No more than ten retailers of adult use cannabis and/or medical cannabis businesses shall be licensed or allowed to operate within the jurisdictional limits of the City of Redding. For purposes of this subsection, a premises offering commercial sale of both adult use and medical cannabis shall be considered as one cannabis business.B.The city manager is hereby given discretion to authorize fewer than ten retail adult use cannabis and/or medical cannabis businesses as he/she determines necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare.C.There shall be no limit on the number of commercial cultivators, manufacturers, processors, distributors, testing laboratories, storage facilities or deliverers of cannabis.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 48).
Full Breakdown
Unlike cities that ban retail cannabis outright, Redding permits it but tightly controls where and how many operators can open. 380 makes it unlawful and a public nuisance for anyone to sell cannabis goods without holding both a state retail license and a City of Redding cannabis business license. 390(A) then caps the total number of adult-use and medical cannabis retailers allowed to operate anywhere in the city at ten, treating a single premises that sells both adult-use and medical cannabis as one retailer for purposes of the cap.
390(B) to authorize fewer than ten retailers if doing so is necessary to protect public health, safety, or welfare, meaning the ten-retailer figure is a ceiling rather than a guarantee. 390(C); the cap applies only to retail sales. 350 before it can operate.
Violations & Fines
Selling cannabis goods without both a state and a City of Redding retail license is unlawful and a public nuisance under Section 6.12.380. A retailer chosen through the competitive selection process that fails to pay the license fee or open for business within ninety days forfeits the award under Section 6.12.410, and the city manager can then move to the next-ranked applicant or restart the selection process.
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Sources & Official References
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