Colorado Springs City Council members will be taking their first action next week on rules governing recreational marijuana in the city. The Tuesday hearing sets up potential conflict as city leadership, long opposed to legal pot, is now tasked with implementing a voter-approved ballot measure allowing it.

The proposed ordinance includes a one-mile zoning restriction for where recreational marijuana stores can open in Colorado Springs and outlines a path for the city to revert to a sales ban in the April election.

On Wednesday, the City Planning Commission approved a city code that enables the new marijuana ordinance permitting businesses to sell the drug recreationally. In a 7-0 unanimous decision members of the commission voted to have the zoning requirements for businesses selling recreational marijuana to be at least 1,