ASBURY PARK – The city’s Zoning Board of Adjustment rejected an application for a professional medical marijuana dispensary on Memorial Drive and To start with Avenue.
Cranbury-based Breakwater Procedure and Wellness proposed opening the health-related cannabis dispensary, which would have been the company’s third locale in New Jersey.
Breakwater’s flagship dispensary in Cranbury has been open up because 2015 and a satellite dispensary in Roselle Park opened in September, but Breakwater has extended prepared to open a dispensary in Asbury Park. The firm has a vertically-built-in license from the condition, which makes it possible for them to mature, manufacture and sell professional medical marijuana.
The organization was seeking preliminary and closing web page program approval for an different treatment method center. If accredited by the zoning board, the dispensary would have been situated on two a lot together the NJ Transit railroad tracks, with an deal with on Memorial Push and parking ton and entrance on Initially Avenue.
The different remedy centre would have operated underneath the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Healthcare Cannabis Act and would not have offered recreational marijuana.
Board members Wendi Glassman, Daniel Harris, Russell Lewis, Jill Potter, Vice Chair John Scully and Chair Christopher Avallone voted to deny the software at their March 28 assembly.
Harris said that he personally has no dilemma with health-related or leisure marijuana, but what does trouble him is attempting to “override the town council.”
“If it is not (zoned), there then why occur right here to adjust it? We would established a unsafe precedent for the metropolis council and the citizens of Asbury Park,” Harris said.
Potter explained she agreed with Harris.
“My situation stands with the resolution (2022-360) in which (city council) enhanced the final decision to prohibit medical hashish,” she mentioned.
Scully claimed his concern was with some of the testimony the board gained in assist of the application which includes questions about parking and shipping options and the layout of the facility.
Lewis mentioned he was common with Breakwater and mentioned he realized the quality of the solution.
“I have a buddy who has been recovering from most cancers treatment and he drives to your facility simply because he thinks its the finest merchandise that he can find. I feel you run a genuinely fantastic business enterprise. I consider Asbury Park would benefit by possessing a enterprise like Breakwater in town,” Lewis claimed.
Lewis extra, “I consider you would be an incredible addition to this town. Like my colleagues the line in the sand is this resolution that the Metropolis Council has been very obvious on, and their intent is incredibly clear.”
“So as significantly as I am in favor of your business and believe that me, I am, I am not compelled to cross that line at this time based mostly on the testimony that I read,” Lewis said.
Lewis voted “regrettably yes” on the motion to deny the software.
Glassman mentioned “a large amount of the testimony that we’ve gained has been extrapolated info, and that we you should not have real, true data to wrap our heads all around to demonstrate numerous of the waivers and do away with a lot of the concerns about what the harmful consequences would be to the instant local community.”
Avallone reported he individually voted to legalize weed, but he did not obtain the web-site suitable for the software and remained concerned about parking in the location, notably throughout the summertime vacationer year.
Charles Daye is the metro reporter for Asbury Park and Neptune, with a emphasis on diversity, fairness and inclusion. @CharlesDayeAPP Contact him: [email protected]
