A zoning request being thought of subsequent week might be step one towards Jacksonville getting a hashish dispensary retail retailer.
The town’s Plan Fee is scheduled to fulfill at 6 p.m. Wednesday within the Municipal Constructing at 200 W. Douglas Ave. Among the many routine agenda gadgets is a evaluate of a petition to rezone property at 1112 Veterans Drive from B4, a enterprise designation, to B4 with particular use.
The property between West Morton and Superior avenues is owned by Daniel Kindred of Jacksonville. The appliance for rezoning, nevertheless, was submitted by Kenny Nice of Bellevue, Washington.
Nice was unavailable for remark Friday, however information from the Washington Secretary of State’s Workplace present him as registered agent of the corporate Nice Holdings LLC, which was integrated in 2019.
Grownup-use hashish dispensaries should not new to the state or to west-central Illinois, however most of these within the area are in Springfield, which has six, or Quincy, which has three. The subsequent-closest places from Jacksonville are Williamsville, about 50 miles to the northeast, and Litchfield, about 70 miles to the southeast.
Leisure marijuana has been authorized within the state since Jan. 1, 2020, though it stays strongly regulated and licensed. Consumers should be at the least 21 years outdated.
Many communities, Jacksonville included, took a proactive stance because it began to grow to be clear Illinois would grow to be the eleventh state within the nation to legalize hashish and enacted modifications to zoning legal guidelines to cowl things like cannabis-related manufacturing or leisure areas.
Metropolis Council on Jan. 13, 2020, accepted amending its zoning codes in anticipation of any such requests. Among the many necessities for dispensaries is that they can’t be inside 150 toes of a nursery, college or residential care facility or of a residential property.
It additionally stipulates that cannabis-related companies could also be required to put in enhancements, equivalent to safety cameras, lighting or different enhancements “to make sure the security of staff and clients of the adult-use hashish enterprise institutions, in addition to its environs.”
The Plan Fee will make a advice to the Metropolis Council, which is chargeable for a last dedication of the appliance.
