PITT A NO-GROW ZONE

Pitt Meadows council affirmed that marijuana grow-operations aren't
allowed anywhere in Pitt Meadows or as a farming operation.

Because medical marijuana is permitted by Health Canada for people
with serious illnesses, people who are authorized to possess it can
get it from Health Canada, grow their own or designate someone to grow
it on their behalf.

The City of Pitt Meadows consulted with their lawyers who recommended
that, in order to clarify the prohibition, the city should define
grow-operation and prohibit it as a home-based business.

The city needed to define agriculture as excluding grow-operations as
the current definition was broad enough to possibly include medicinal
marijuana.

While growing marijuana for other people is licensed by the federal
government, municipal zoning regulations still apply.

The bylaw passed first and second reading and a public hearing for it
will be held on July 20.