San Francisco County Municipal Code § 1613 Limits on Permits

(a) A Permittee that holds a Cannabis Testing Facility permit shall be ineligible for and may not be issued a permit to operate any other type of Commercial Cannabis Activity permitted by the City. A Permittee that holds a Cannabis Business Permit other than a Cannabis Testing Facility permit, shall be ineligible for and may not be issued a permit to operate a Cannabis Testing Facility. (b) No permit to operate as a Storefront Cannabis Retailer shall be granted if any individual holding a legal or beneficial interest in the proposed Storefront Cannabis Retailer already holds a legal or beneficial interest in four or more existing Storefront Cannabis Retailers that hold permits under this Article 16, except that an interest held in a Storefront Cannabis Retailer shall not be counted towards this limit if the Storefront Cannabis Retailer has received approval from the Planning Commission, following a discretionary review hearing, as of the effective date of the ordinance in Board File No. 180912. If an application for a permit, under this Article 16, to operate as a Storefront Cannabis Retailer is pending for approval before the Planning Commission, and if the approval of that permit would cause an individual to hold a legal or beneficial interest in four or more existing Storefront Cannabis Retailers (other than Storefront Cannabis Retailers that, as of the effective date of the ordinance in Board File No. 180912, have received approval from the Planning Commission following a discretionary review hearing), the Office of Cannabis shall place on hold any additional applications for a permit on behalf of a Storefront Cannabis Retailer in which that individual would hold a legal or beneficial interest in a proposed Storefront Cannabis Retailer. For purposes of this subsection (b), the circumstances in which an individual holds a legal or beneficial interest in a Storefront Cannabis Retailer shall include (but need not be limited to) any circumstance in which an individual holds a legal or beneficial interest in any Person holding a legal or beneficial interest in the Storefront Cannabis Retailer. (c) No application for a permit to operate a Cannabis Café shall be accepted if any individual holding a legal or beneficial interest in the proposed Cannabis Café business already holds a legal or beneficial interest in four or more businesses that either hold valid Cannabis Café permits or have pending applications for Cannabis Café permits under this Article 16. For purposes of this subsection, a legal or beneficial interest in a business may include a legal or beneficial interest in a separate entity that holds a legal or beneficial interest in the permittee or Applicant. (d) The Controller shall track the number of permits that are awarded pursuant to this Article 16. (Added by Ord. 230-17, File No. 171042, App. 12/6/2017, Eff. 1/5/2018; amended by Ord. 302-18, File No. 180912, App. 12/21/2018, Eff. 1/21/2019; Ord. 131-26, File No. 260281, App. 7/23/2026, Eff. 8/23/2026)