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October 10, 2013 I Volume 7 I Issue 19 <br />Zoning Bulletin <br />to address "uncertainty and confusion created by a 2009 appellate court <br />ruling that the state's rent control law, the Costa -Hawkins Act, prohibits <br />such programs for rental housing." The bill now awaits Governor <br />Brown's signature or veto. <br />Source: http://sdgln.com/news <br />MARYLAND <br />Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler has deemed unconstitu- <br />tional a portion of Senate Bill 370, which deals with setback require- <br />ments for wind turbines. Gansler has said that the provision of the bill <br />that requires an adjoining property owner's consent to a variance for a <br />wind turbine setback requirement is unconstitutional because it would <br />give adjacent neighbors zoning authority. It is Gansler's view that "such <br />delegation of zoning authority to individual landowners is of doubtful <br />constitutionality." <br />Source: Cumberland Times -News; http://times-news.com <br />MASSACHUSETTS <br />The City of Worcester's Planning Board has advanced to the City <br />Council proposed zoning rules for siting medical marijuana dispensa- <br />ries in the city. Reportedly, two board members support limiting medi- <br />cal marijuana dispensaries to areas zoned for business -general, <br />manufacturing -general and institutional -hospital uses, two other board <br />members favor expanding it to also include areas zoned for light <br />manufacturing. The City Council can accept, amend, or reject the <br />board's recommendations. In Massachusetts, "[w]ithout local zoning <br />restrictions, medical marijuana dispensaries could locate anywhere in <br />the city, except for within 500 feet of a school, day care center or facil- <br />ity where children congregate." <br />Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette; www.telegram.com <br />12 © 2013 Thomson Reuters <br />