Riverside, CA Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)

320(A) folds cannabis land use into the City's existing zoning code, requiring every permitted operator to conform with the general plan, any applicable specific or master plan, and City design requirements, and to comply with all applicable zoning and development standards found in Titles 16 through 19 of the Municipal Code. Construction must also be designed to minimize odors reaching surrounding uses. For Storefront Retail Cannabis Businesses specifically, the chapter adds two locational rules on top of ordinary zoning: no storefront retailer may sit on a parcel within 1,000 feet of another parcel containing a storefront retailer, measured in a straight line from the closest property lines, and no storefront retailer may be located within 1,000 feet of another storefront retailer entrance-to-entrance even on the same parcel.

Storefront retail is also barred outright from the boundaries of the Downtown and Midtown areas as depicted on the chapter's reference figures, a locational prohibition, not a distance buffer. The design and location of a storefront retailer must also be compatible with an existing Alcoholic Beverage Control-licensed business, and cannot render that ABC business non-compliant. 300.