Overview:
The City of Redmond will soon have two marijuana dispensaries.
The City of Redmond has approved two marijuana dispensaries, months after the City Council voted to allow dispensaries within city limits.
Oregrown plans to open its fifth location around the holidays at 2127 U.S. Highway 97, Suite 110, in a strip mall near The Back Porch and Company. The new store will join the company’s existing locations in Bend, Portland, Cannon Beach and Chico, California.
The Flower Room does not currently have an opening date. It will open in the Home Depot parking lot next to the Surf Thru Express Car Wash. The Flower Room can also be found in Bend and Tumalo.
A comprehensive application process
The City of Redmond’s Retail Marijuana Business Portal outlines a rigorous, multi-step application process for dispensaries seeking to operate within city limits. All applicants are first required to meet zoning and land use requirements. If the dispensary passes this step, it must then go through a comprehensive application process that includes reviews of business, building design and merchandising plans, background checks and interviews.
The application was “competitive and in-depth,” said Hunter Neubauer, Oregrown’s co-founder and chairman of the board. “We are very excited to be part of the Redmond community and look forward to being good stewards of our industry.”
Redmond limits marijuana dispensaries to one for every 10,000 residents. With a population of nearly 37,000, the city currently allows a maximum of three dispensaries.
“We’re not going to have more than three dispensaries; it’ll be two or three, but it will provide appropriate access and generate some revenue to the city,” Redmond Mayor Ed Fitch told the Source Weekly in an April interview. “The revenue will certainly be welcome.”
Heather Cassaro, director of communications for the city of Redmond, said the city anticipates accepting applications for a third dispensary in late spring or early summer 2026.
City Council vote came after advisory ballot
In April, the Redmond City Council voted to allow marijuana dispensaries within city limits. All dispensaries are required to obtain licensing through the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission.
While the OLCC mandates a 17% retail sales tax on all marijuana purchases, the council added an additional city 3% tax on marijuana sales. Revenue from the city’s marijuana tax will flow into Redmond’s general operating fund, potentially supporting police, transportation, and parks programs. City staff project that these tax revenues will likely exceed $100,000 annually.
The decision followed a November advisory ballot measure that gauged voters’ interest in allowing dispensaries in the city. That nonbinding measure passed in November 2024 with about 53% of votes.
Regulations
The city’s zoning regulations establish buffer zones between dispensaries and sensitive locations such as schools, parks, daycare facilities, transit stations, treatment facilities and shelters. Specifically, dispensaries must maintain a minimum distance of 1,000 feet from any school. The ordinances also prohibit dispensaries from mobile cannabis services.
Dispensaries also have restrictions on their operating hours, limited to a 12-hour window between 8am and 8pm.
This article appears in the Source September 11, 2025.
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