Redwood City, CA Real Estate & Cannabis Regulations

Uses: Retail, Delivery, Nursery

Distance Requirement: Premises licensed shall not be located within a 600-foot radius of a school providing instruction in kindergarten or any grades 1 through 12, day care center, or youth center that is in existence at the time the license is issued.

Cap of Business: Other than co-location with a retail medicinal cannabis business, retail commercial adult-use cannabis businesses shall be prohibited.

Tax Rate:

• For every person who engages in commercial cannabis cultivation as a nursery shall be subject to two and one-half percent (2.5%) of gross receipts.
• For every person who engages in the retail sales of cannabis or cannabis products as a retailer (dispensary) or non-storefront retailer (delivery business) or microbusiness (retail sales activity) shall be subject to four percent (4%) of gross receipts.
• If and when the City Council, by ordinance, takes action to allow commercial cultivation other than as a nursery, every person who engages in commercial cannabis cultivation other than as a nursery shall be subject to two and one-half percent (2.5%) of gross receipts.
• If and when the City Council, by ordinance, takes action to allow operation of a testing laboratory for cannabis or cannabis products, every person who engages in the operation of a testing laboratory for cannabis or cannabis products shall be subject to one percent (1%) of gross receipts.
• If and when the City Council, by ordinance, takes action to allow a cannabis distribution business for cannabis or cannabis products, every person who engages in a cannabis distribution business for cannabis or cannabis products shall be subject to two percent (2%) of gross receipts.
• If and when the City Council, by ordinance, takes action to allow cannabis manufacturing, processing, or microbusiness (non-retail activity), or any other type of cannabis business not described in Sections 32.954(B)(1), (2), or (3), and for which a State license is required under Business and Professions Code Sections 26000, et seq., every person who engages in such cannabis business shall be subject to two and one-half percent (2.5%) of gross receipts.