presenters are michael christianson, senior planner of the planning department and nicole elliott, director of the office of cannabis. welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon commission. i'm with the planning department before you, we have legislation that the office of cannabis is taking to the board soon. i promised that despite the complex title, it is much more simple than it would seem. we are here to run you through what is proposed and how it impacts existing m.c.d. in this c.d. the legislation is broken into three main areas. the first two are very similar. it is largely just clean up of the existing section. it is background section 190, it is if you are an existing medical cannabis dispensary, it is a process where you convert to cannabis retail permanently. currently all the existing medical dispensaries in the city are still medical only with a temporary authorization to do battle to use sales and in order to continue that pass a temporary period, they have to formally convert by obtaining a permit. so the initial section when i knew it was adopted in december of last year, it bec