Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region

[Brenden]

The city had the opportunity to establish rules in 2019 before stores opened. Kingston for instance has a restriction where Cannabis stores can not be within 150 meters of each other.

Do you have a reference to this? The only reference I see is that the city requests the AGCO to not locate cannabis stores near other stores.
https://www.cityofkingston.ca/documents/...b30615ef28

Anyway, I personally don't see what the benefit of such a restriction would be anyway.

Yep here is the reference from the AGCO:

Ontario municipalities had a one-time option to opt out of having cannabis retail stores in their communities. They had until January 22, 2019 to notify the AGCO that their council had passed a resolution to opt out of having cannabis retail stores. Municipalities that choose to opt out can opt back in at any time—but once they have opted in, they may not reverse their decision. 
Therefore, cannabis retail stores cannot be located in a municipality that has passed a resolution prohibiting cannabis retail stores from being located in the municipality.  

• If a municipality decided not to allow cannabis retail stores, they must have informed the AGCO about their decision by January 22, 2019.  
  
  
• The AGCO’s website has a list of municipalities that have decided not to allow cannabis retail stores.  
  
  
• Municipalities that have opted-in may not create a licensing system respecting the sale of cannabis nor pass a bylaw that distinguishes land or building use for cannabis from any other kinds of use. 
  
  
• The fact that your application is accepted does not guarantee that it will be approved. Determining that a retail store authorization application meets all retail location requirements is made on the basis of the information available at the time of the expected issuance of the retail store authorization and not at the time of the application.
  

Last year I put together a Cannabis Retail Location Guide, for PiinPoint a local startup, which included a list of several of the buffer zones for cannabis retailers set by municipalities across Canada. The data has not been updated in a year, so some of it might have changed.