For more than an hour Tuesday afternoon the voice of a British robot filled the commission room at the Ouray County Courthouse, reading aloud a 16-page ordinance governing marijuana grow facilities that commissioners passed at a first reading continued from Aug. 2.

While the ordinance, the product of more than a dozen meetings, is poised to go into effect on Oct. 1 if passed on second reading Aug. 30, meeting participants Tuesday questioned it right up until the end. It will repeal and replace a ...