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为改造社区文化！萨城准备禁止这条街上的大麻店、按摩店以及其他烟草零售店！
Trees of Knowledge owner Jerard Johnson runs a delivery-only cannabis business in North Sacramento, and wants to open a storefront dispensary. He describes how city regulations have affected his business on Oct. 14, 2019. BY PAUL KITAGAKI JR.
“知识之树”的所有者杰拉德·约翰逊在北萨克拉门托开了一家只送药的大麻店，他打算开一家门面药房。
The Sacramento City Council is poised to ban a slew of businesses from opening along two sections of Folsom Boulevard in an effort to revitalize the corridor.
萨克拉门托市议会准备禁止沿福尔松林荫道的两个路段开设大量企业，以重振这条走廊。
The ordinance, which the council will consider Tuesday, would ban new cannabis dispensaries, massage parlors, check-cashing businesses and some tobacco retailers from opening along Folsom Boulevard. The ban would apply between 63rd to 69th streets and also from Howe to Watt avenues.
议会将于周二审议这项法令，该法令将禁止在福尔松大道沿线开设新的大麻药房、按摩院、支票兑现店和一些烟草零售商。这项禁令将适用于63街到69街之间以及豪大街到瓦特大街之间。
The ordinance would aim to “attract a greater mix of land uses to the area” and also to “maintain and improve the character, quality, and vitality of the area,” according to a city staff report.
根据一份市政府工作人员的报告，该条例的目的是“吸引更多的土地用途到该地区”，同时“保持和改善该地区的特色、质量和活力”。
The proposed ordinance was drafted after residents started asking Councilman Eric Guerra for ways to revitalize Folsom Boulevard with more family-friendly businesses, he said.
他说，该条例草案是在居民向市议员古雷拉(Eric Guerra)询问如何让福尔松大道恢复生机，发展更多适合家庭居住的企业后草拟的。
“Families are coming back into the neighborhood, people are buying their grandparents’ homes, Little League is doing well,” Guerra said. “There’s that energy we should capture.”
格拉说:“很多家庭都回到了这个社区，人们买了祖父母的房子，少年棒球联盟也做得很好。”“我们应该捕捉这种能量。”
The ordinance would be a way to prevent strip mall owners from filling their spaces with “low hanging fruit” such as more of what is already there — massage parlors, check-cashing businesses and smoke shops — so the neighbors can play a role in what they want the boulevard to look like, he said.
他说，这条法令将是一种防止单排购物中心的业主把“唾手可得的东西”填满他们的空间的方法，比如已经存在的更多东西——按摩院、支票兑现店和烟雾店——这样，邻居们就可以在他们希望的林荫大道的样子上发挥自己的作用。
The College-Glen Neighborhood Association started asking the city to ban new massage parlors from the area after repeatedly hearing from police officers at their meetings about how prostitution and sex trafficking is occurring in some of the locations, said Annette Deglow, president of the association.
大学-格伦社区协会主席安妮特·德格恩(Annette Deglow)说，该协会在会议上反复听取警察关于一些地方的卖淫和性交易是如何发生的，在此之后，协会开始要求市政府禁止在该地区开设新的按摩院。
“When they (shut them down), they just take the sign down, move to the other side of the street and start up again,” Deglow said. “It’s just been a big cycle.”
Deglow表示:“当他们(关闭这些商店)时，他们只是拿着牌子，搬到街的另一边，然后重新开起来。”
The council is discussing a citywide ordinance to strengthen the power of code inspectors to cite and shut down massage parlors suspected of offering sexual services and victimizing the workers in them.
议会正在讨论一项全市范围的法令，以加强规范检查员的权力，查获并关闭涉嫌提供性服务并迫害其员工的按摩院。
The ordinance would prohibit new storefront cannabis dispensaries, as well as new delivery-only dispensaries, from opening in the area.
该法令将禁止在该地区开设新的店面大麻药房，以及新的仅限配送的大麻药房。
Although there are no storefront dispensaries along the corridor, the neighbors are concerned there soon will be, Guerra said.
Guerra说，尽管走廊沿线没有店面药房，但邻居们担心很快就会有了。
“We were concerned (cannabis businesses) would come into our shopping centers and compound what was already a problem,” Deglow said.
Deglow表示:“我们担心(大麻生意)会进入我们的购物中心，使已经存在的问题雪上加霜。”
Some residents are also concerned that cannabis businesses could give easier access for students at nearby Cristo Rey High School to marijuana, Deglow said.
Deglow网站称，一些居民还担心，大麻生意可能会让附近克里斯托·雷伊高中(Cristo Rey High School)的学生更容易获得大麻。
Joshua Drayton, spokesman for the California Cannabis Industry Association, called the idea to ban dispensaries from the corridor “absolutely ludicrous.”
加州大麻工业协会发言人Joshua Drayton称，禁止大麻药店进入走廊的想法“绝对荒唐可笑”。
“The cannabis industry in general in California has been forced into industrial parks the whole way through,” Drayton said. “Here we are at a place where we are coming through a pandemic where jobs have been lost, where there is no economic recovery in sight, and we’re further restricting an industry that could play a huge role in economic recovery.”
德雷顿说:“加州的大麻产业整体上都被迫进入了工业园区。”“我们正在经历一场大流行病，造成工作机会流失，看不到经济复苏的迹象。我们正在进一步限制一个可能在经济复苏中发挥巨大作用的行业。”
While the state and many cities limit dispensaries near schools and churches, Drayton has said he has not heard of another city to ban them from a section of a roadway as a revitalization technique.
虽然州政府和许多城市限制学校和教堂附近的大麻药店，但德雷顿说，他还没有听说过其他城市禁止大麻药店进入某一路段作为一种改造技术。
When Sacramento first allowed dispensaries to open about a decade ago, there were strict zoning requirements, so many of them ended up in industrial areas, including in Guerra’s southeast Sacramento district. A few years ago, the city loosened its requirements, leading to several shops moving closer to the city. One shop has applied to relocate to 8551 Folsom Blvd., within the area where new shops could be banned.
大约十年前，萨克拉门托第一次允许大麻药店开业时，有严格的分区要求，因此许多大麻药店最终都设在工业区，包括格拉的东南部萨克拉门托地区。几年前，该市放宽了规定，导致几家商店搬到离该市更近的地方。有一家商店已经申请搬到福尔松大道8551号。在新商店可能被禁止的区域内。
It’s possible the council could allow that shop to open by granting a special exception, city spokeswoman Kelli Trapani said.
市发言人凯丽·特拉帕尼(Kelli Trapani)说，市议会可能会给予特殊例外，允许这家商店开业。
Most dispensaries sign neighborhood agreements, volunteer to clean up trash in the area, install lighting and security cameras, and donate heavily to charity, said Caity Maple, vice president of government affairs for Perfect Union, a cannabis business with several shops in the city.
“完美联盟”(Perfect Union)的政府事务副总裁凯蒂梅普尔(Caity Maple)说，大多数大麻药房会签署社区协议，自愿清理该地区的垃圾，安装照明和监控摄像头，并向慈善机构大量捐赠。
Although it won’t affect Perfect Union, the ordinance could make it harder for the business owners of the 10 new storefront dispensaries that the city is allowing to open — residents most impacted by the War on Drugs, Maple said.
虽然这不会影响到完美联盟，但该法令可能会使10家新店面药店的老板们更加困难，因为他们是受毒品战争影响最大的居民，Maple说。
“I wonder where are these equity applicants are going to find locations for potential dispensaries?” Maple said.
“我想知道这些股权申请人会去哪里寻找潜在的药房?””枫说。
Instead of massage parlors and pot shops, Deglow would like to see more restaurants open and maybe a flower shop, she said.
她说，Deglow希望看到更多的餐馆开张，也许还有一家花店，而不是按摩院和大麻店。
“We’ve been waiting for this,” Deglow said. “The question is just how long would it take to get positive growth on Folsom.”
“我们一直在等待这一结果，”Deglow表示。“问题是，福尔松需要多长时间才能实现正增长。”
If the council approves the ordinance, it would go into effect in 30 days, Trapani said.
特拉帕尼说，如果议会批准该法令，它将在30天内生效。
The meeting will take place at 5 p.m. Tuesday. It will be livestreamed on the city’s website.
会议将于星期二下午5时举行。该视频将在城市网站上直播。
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