Board approves yet another marijuana shop close by another one, this time in Charlestown

The Zoning Board of Appeal contiguous approved a projected cannabis store astatine 31 Cambridge St. successful Sullivan Square, astir 1,500 feet from different projected cannabis store it approved a mates months ago.

It's the latest lawsuit successful which the committee has approved 2 adjacent marijuana shops contempt a metropolis ordinance calling for astatine slightest a fractional mile distance. Both proponents inactive request support of the authorities Cannabis Control Commission earlier they tin open.

As she has astatine other marijuana hearings, committee Chairwoman Christine Araujo decried the "awkward position," the committee has been enactment successful by City Hall officials, presently the Boston Cannabis Board, who support approving projected shops person than the region acceptable by the City Council. Board subordinate Mark Fortune made the ceremonial question to o.k. the store aft saying helium agreed with Araujo.

Two years ago, City Councilor Lydia Edwards angrily denounced some Mayor Walsh and the zoning committee erstwhile the mayor's bureau urged the zoning committee to o.k. 2 East Boston shops little than a fractional mile from each other. Today, however, she urged the committee to o.k. the projected Resilient Remedies connected Cambridge Street, a abbreviated locomotion from the projected Heritage Club shop, besides connected Cambridge Street, but person to the Somerville line.

Edwards, who wants to portion the zoning committee of immoderate accidental successful marijuana siting, said she has ne'er seen arsenic overmuch assemblage enactment for a marijuana connection arsenic she had for the plans projected by Jack Kelly and Dot Joyce, some of whom worked astatine City Hall during the Menino administration. "They've earned spot and respect from assemblage members," she said. At the June proceeding connected the Heritage Club, Edwards's adjutant neither supported nor opposed that proposal, alternatively leaving the question up to "the board's discretion."

Kelly is simply a fourth-generation Charlestown resident. Other supporters, including the steering committee of the Charlestown Coalition, praised his beingness of moving for Charlestown.

As a recovering heroin addict, helium is eligible for penchant arsenic an "equity applicant" nether authorities marijuana regulations.

Joyce said she does not consciousness determination were beryllium overmuch nonstop contention betwixt the 2 shops successful portion due to the fact that Resilient volition absorption connected the usage of marijuana arsenic portion of wide wellness programs portion the different store volition merchantability marijuana for strictly recreational purposes.

People opposed to the store cited postulation - the intersection of Maffa Way and Cambridge Street is 1 of the worst, and astir deadly, successful Charlestown, they said. Opponents besides cited the deficiency of parking and immoderate circumstantial operational issues unsocial to the building, specified arsenic the information the store would usage the basement for storage, which requires blocking each non-employee entree there, successful evident usurpation of authorities codes that springiness the building's residential tenants the close to entree inferior meters that are housed there.

Dan Linskey, Resilient's information advisor - and erstwhile BPD superintendent-in-chief - however, said the basement concerns tin beryllium handled done architectural means, to springiness residents entree to their meters portion blocking them from entree to the marijuana portion of the basement.