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Image #1 <br />(10)(c)), consumption lounges would be required to "be on the same site as and physically <br />contiguous to a commercial cannabis retail business." (Emphasis added.) Under SAMC section <br />40-2(39), "Retail business" is defined as "a premises where cannabis, cannabis products, or <br />devices for the use of cannabis or cannabis products are offered, either individually or in any <br />combination for retail sale, including an establishment that delivers cannabis or cannabis <br />products as part of a retail sale." Under CANAM section 6 (amending SAMC § 40-8(10(g)), <br />"[c]annabis may only be smoked within the indoor portion(s) of a consumption lounge as may be <br />allowable under state law. Outdoor smokinz is prohibited." (Emphasis added.) <br />Under CANAM section 6 (amending SAMC § 40-4(A)), the maximum number of <br />Regulatory Safety Permits (RSP) allowed for commercial cannabis retail businesses would be <br />thirty-five (35). Currently, under SAMC section 40-4, the City of Santa Ana cannot <br />"allow more than... [t]wenty (20) total medicinal cannabis retail businesses...; [and] [t]hirty (30) <br />total adult -use cannabis retail businesses (which could include any or all of the medicinal <br />cannabis retail businesses)." Under SAMC section 40-2(10), "commercial cannabis business" is <br />defined as, inter alia, a business that sells "adult -use cannabis, medicinal cannabis or an adult - <br />use cannabis or medicinal cannabis product...." (Emphasis added.) <br />According to the May 3, 2022 Staff Report on Ordinance Amendment No. 2022-01 <br />("Staff Report"), the number of commercial cannabis retail business RSPB currently allowed, i.e., <br />the maximum of thirty (30), have already been allotted. (p. 8.) The Staff Report goes on to state, <br />"The proposed amendments would allow an additional five (5) retail locations, for a total of 35 <br />storefronts in the City... [T]he amendments would allow all 35 retail licenses to sell both <br />medicinal and adult -use cannabis." (Id.) Furthermore, the Staff Report states, "the amendments <br />would terminate the Measure BB Waidist ... current[ly] five (5)... and allow them to apply for <br />