Town Meeting To Decide Medical Marijuana Delay Bylaw
Board of Selectmen accept Planning Board-written amendment on interim controls.
Belmont Town Meeting will vote at its annual gathering in April on an interim amendment to delay for more than a year changing the town's zoning bylaws to permit marijuana dispensaries to do business. Written by the Belmont Planning Board, the interim controls for medical marijuana uses – which was brought before the Belmont Board of Selectmen for its approval on Monday, Feb. 11 – would allow the town to begin a careful regulatory review on where treatment centers could be located and how they dispense its goods, according to Belmont Town Administrator David Kale. Under the bylaw, a proposed center will be shut out from opening its doors as it will not be permitted in any zoning district including all overlay district. Those controls would…
