In-store access
Open the store to every adult 21 and over
Only medical cardholders can shop in store in Fairfax. If you think any adult with an ID should be welcome, tell the Town Council.
Email the Council in under a minute
- 1Tap the button. A ready draft opens in your own email, addressed to the Council.
- 2Add a line of your own and your name. It counts for more.
- 3Send.
Your draft:
The rule today
Anyone 21 and over can already order delivery from us with just an ID. Walking in is different: the Town allows in-store sales here to medical cardholders only, and only the Town Council can change that.
The Council reads what residents send, so a short note carries weight. Whatever your view, this page is how it reaches them.
What happened in September
On September 2 a resident petition, with signatures verified by the Town, asked the Town Council what the options would be for letting adults 21 and over shop in store. The Council discussed it with the store's owner, members suggested giving it a year, and the petition's question went unanswered.
The process is the same as it was (chapter 4), and what residents send in still counts at every step. There is nothing in it to argue over: the store, its hours and its rules stay as they are. The one difference is that adults would stop paying for a medical recommendation they don't need just to walk in.
What would actually change
Stays exactly the same
- The building, the location, the parking
- Hours of operation
- Security requirements
- Buffer zones from schools
- The Town's limit on how many storefronts are allowed
- ID checked on every visit
- Adults 18 and over with a medical recommendation can still shop in store
- Nobody under 18, ever
- The sales tax exemption for county medical cardholders
The one thing that changes
Any adult 21 or older could shop in person with a valid ID, without a medical recommendation.
Adults 18 and over with a recommendation could still shop, exactly as they do today. Under state rules an adult-use customer can buy less in a day than a medical patient, so the change does not increase what anyone takes home. It changes who may walk in.
How a change would happen
A change like this does not happen in a single vote. It moves through public steps over months, and what residents send in is weighed at each one.
- The Council. The Council can direct staff to study a change and refer it to the Planning Commission.
- Planning Commission. The Commission reviews it in its own public hearings, usually over a month or two.
- Back to the Council. Any actual ordinance change returns to the Council later, with readings and a vote.
Write to the Council
Below is a draft, picked at random so the Council does not receive forty identical emails. It opens in your own email program, addressed to the Council, and you send it yourself. Our town staff and representatives have plenty on their plates, so please be kind and be brief.
Please make it your own
Change a few words, add a sentence about why you care, and put your name and your Fairfax address at the bottom before you send it. A note that sounds like a person carries far more weight than a form letter, and the Council can tell the difference at a glance.
Your draft
This opens a draft in your own email program, addressed to fairfaxtowncouncil@townoffairfaxca.gov, and blind-copied to us at support@laflorfairfax.com so we can see how many notes went out. Delete that line if you would rather we did not. You send the email yourself, from your own address. La Flōr never sends anything on your behalf and never sees what you write.
Speak at a meeting
Public comment from a resident, said out loud, carries more weight than anything else on this page. You get a few minutes, you do not need to prepare anything, and saying you live here and you support it is a complete comment.
In person
Fairfax Town Council meetings are public. Cannabis items tend to sit well down the agenda, so there is no need to arrive right at the start. Check the current agenda for the date, time, and place, and fill out a speaker card when you get there.
By phone
Dial in with the number on the agenda and press star 9 to raise your hand when the item is called.
On Zoom
Join with the link on the agenda and use Raise Hand when the Mayor opens public comment.
The agenda does not give time estimates, so an item can come up any time after the meeting starts. The agenda, with the dial-in and Zoom details, posts about five business days ahead at townoffairfaxca.gov.
If you plan to come, or want a text when the item is close to being heard, email us at support@laflorfairfax.com and we will let you know how the evening is running.