Calgary’s submission identifies several general areas of concern — including land-use and business licensing, building and fire code compliance, community standards, enforcement and community safety — but notes officials won’t fully understand the impact until the legislation is introduced next year.

“We follow very closely what the federal government is moving forward on and, as things evolve . . . we’re going to stay aligned with it and create the uses as they are permitted federally,” Wayne Brown, co-ordinator for the City of Calgary’s safety response unit, said in an interview.

In 2014, city council amended land-use bylaws to specifically allow for commercial marijuana growing operations as a discretionary use in areas zoned for general industrial activity. Earlier this year, council approved rules to prevent marijuanacounselling businesses from clustering in neighbourhoods or opening within 150 metres of a school.

The city — like many municipalities across the country — wants Ottawa to provide a portion of potential taxes or revenues from marijuana sales to offset the cost of educational initiatives, addiction services and “other programs to address the social issues that may arise with legalization,” according to Calgary’s submission.

Health Canada has estimated revenue from medical marijuana will hit $1.3 billion with 450,000 patients by 2024. Analysts have pegged the medical market as high as $3 billion with 800,000 patients and recreational sales reaching $5 billion by 2024.

“We’re not looking for taxing (power), we’re looking for money that they’re collecting to rebate us for the additional costs, said Coun. Ward Sutherland, vice-chair of the city’s priorities and finance committee.

“Once they legalize it, they’re going to get taxes from it, so they’d know exactly how many dollars they’re getting in . . . it would be pretty easy to do the rebates,” he said. “It wouldn’t be convoluted.”