The moratorium shall be in effect for a period of one (1) year beginning from the effective date of this Ordinance, or until changes are enacted and take legal effect to amend the Codified Ordinances of the City of Oakwood to address these issues, or until Council enacts legislation explicitly revoking this moratorium and the same takes legal effect, whichever occurs first.
It is hereby found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all deliberations of this Council and any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in meetings open to the public, if required, in compliance with all legal requirements including Ohio R.C. 121.22.
This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and as such takes effect immediately on the basis that it is necessary to avoid any practical or legal entanglements that may arise during the developmental roll-out of the State of Ohio’s adult use marijuana program, and on the further basis that doing so will promote the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety of the City and its inhabitants.
PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OAKWOOD, this ___ day of ____________, 2024.
TO THE CLERK:
Publish the foregoing Ordinance in the summary form set forth below.
Ordinance _____ of the Council of the city of Oakwood, Ohio was passed on the ____ day of ____________, 2024. Said ordinance was enacted as an emergency measure to provide for a moratorium on the issuance of permits relating to retail dispensaries, cultivators, and processors of adult use marijuana.
I, Lori Stacel, Clerk of Council of the city of Oakwood, State of Ohio, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly published in summary form in The Oakwood Register, a newspaper of general circulation in said city of Oakwood, and that said publication occurred on the following date: