Amanda Fritz to Oversee Portland's Marijuana Policy

City Commissioner Amanda Fritz
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales
City Commissioner Amanda Fritz

Fritz had angered developers with fee hikes and policies targeting skinny houses. The mayor reassigned the Bureau of Development Services to Commissioner Dan Saltzman. 

Fritz got the Office of Neighborhood Involvement, which she had previously run—but that bureau now oversees the city’s marijuana policy program, which is about to become a major source of new cash. 

As WW reported Monday, the city is poised to charge medical marijuana dispensaries $1,500 each for temporary licenses to sell recreational weed starting in October. 

Fritz declined to talk about her new weed empire, saying she hadn’t been briefed on it yet.

The switch happens July 15.

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