Aurora caps food delivery fees, pushes voting on marijuana changes
The Aurora City Council voted on limitations to third-party food delivery fees and considered marijuana market changes during a meeting Monday night.
Aurora lawmakers voted unanimously to finalize a temporary cap on fees paid by restaurants to third-party companies like Uber East and Grubhub for food delivery services.
The cap will last until the end of March to help restaurants already struggling from the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill was introduced by Councilman Curtis Gardner.
Denver passed a similar law in October, capping fees taken by third-party food delivery apps to 15% of the customer’s bill.
Previously, delivery fees could often take up to 30% of an order’s cost from the restaurant.
The council was scheduled to vote on recreational marijuana delivery Monday but declined the dual listing, pushing the vote to Dec. 7 instead.
If approved, the change would allow Aurora residents to have marijuana delivered to their homes by licensed dispensaries before 10 p.m.
Daily deliveries would be limited to one ounce of marijuana, eight grams of marijuana concentrate and 80 10-milligram servings of THC.
The council was also schedule to took a first look at a plan that would lower barriers for workers in the marijuana industry.
Aurora currently bars people from working in the marijuana industry as employees or business owners if they have felony convictions within 10 years or felony drug convictions from any time.
Workers are also disqualified for violations of local drug laws, petty offenses or misdemeanor convictions from the last five years.
This is a stricter rule than the state as a whole, which only disqualifies people with felony convictions from the last three years.
If passed, the new rules would bring the city’s guidelines in line with state government.


