Tampa, FL Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)

Sec. 27-156, the official schedule of district regulations, lists "Medical marijuana dispensary" and "Medical marijuana processing facility" as separate use rows across the city's zoning districts, each flagged with footnote 16. That footnote states dispensaries "in the IG and IH zoning districts may only be an accessory use to a medical marijuana processing facility," meaning a dispensary in those two industrial districts can't stand alone: it must be paired with, and subordinate to, an on-site processing operation. The same footnote also cross-references Sec. 29 for the separate 500-foot school distance separation and Sec.

27-132 for supplemental special use criteria, and states that any request to reduce the distance requirement must be processed as a Special Use-2 permit through Article II, Division 5. A related footnote (21) to the same table adds that a processing facility site in the IG district must contain at least 20,000 square feet, with the aggregate floor area for processing uses on that lot capped at 100,000 square feet. Together, these notes mean the industrial districts function as processing-plus-accessory-dispensary zones rather than retail dispensary corridors, pushing standalone dispensaries toward the commercial districts where the table permits them outright.