Yuma, AZ Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)

03, in Article 22 of the zoning chapter, requires every non-profit medical marijuana dispensary and recreational marijuana establishment in the city to operate as a single dual-purpose marijuana facility, combining cultivation and retail dispensing at one location; no stand-alone or separate cultivation site is permitted. Subsection (C) permits these dual-purpose facilities only as a use in the B-2 (Community Commercial) and L-I (Light Industrial) zoning districts, subject to the article's other conditions, and it specifically closes off a route some industrial-zoned cannabis operations use elsewhere: a dual-purpose facility cannot reach a Heavy Industrial District through a conditional use permit issued from a Light Industrial base district.

Subsection (D) layers on an overlay-district exclusion that applies even inside B-2 or L-I zoning: a site cannot host a dual-purpose facility if it carries a Historic District Overlay, an Aesthetic Overlay (including properties bound by a development agreement requiring Aesthetic Overlay standards), an Auto Center Overlay, or a Bed and Breakfast Overlay designation. The article further bars dual-purpose facilities from operating as an accessory use or a home occupation in any zone, caps the citywide total at one facility per 50,000 residents based on the most recent Decennial Census, and requires the facility to front on a Principal Arterial roadway as classified in the City of Yuma General Plan, sited in a permanent building on a permanent foundation rather than a trailer, cargo container, or mobile structure.