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October 23, 2013

On the blog for the Town of Dennis Planning Department, there is an explanation of how the marijuana dispensary process might proceed. Dennis is about midway on Cape Cod and are, they explain, the only town in Barnstable County (at this time) to have revised their zoning code to permit a marijuana dispensary. If no other town (or city - the Town of Barnstable is actually a city) permits dispensaries, then all six Barnstable County applicants could come to Dennis, get reviewed and possibly approved by the Planning Department, and then the state would knock out five of them, leaving one standing. This is a concern to the Planning Department, since it would mean knowingly wasting five-sixths of their marijuana dispensary review effort. I don't know if Massachusetts towns can charge fees to offset Planning Department costs the same way as California cities, but even so nobody in a small town wants to waste that much time.

In other interesting news: the Planning Department for the Town of Dennis has a blog!? Can you imagine Martín Magaña blogging about what our city planning department is up to? I'd be surprised if there would even be enough time to tweet about it.

Filed under Marijuana | permalink | October 23, 2013 at 09:23 AM

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