Downtown Scottsdale may see its first medical marijuana dispensary — if it can overcome the potential hurdle a nearby preschool presents.
Sunday Goods, which operates an all-natural cannabis farm in southeastern Arizona, wants to open the dispensary in the current Club Tattoo building downtown, near Fifth Avenue and Winfield Scott Plaza.
The company is headquartered in Scottsdale and has plans to open a dispensary in north Phoenix.
Some Scottsdale residents expressed concerns about this type of business coming to the area, but others say they would welcome a dispensary downtown. Erica Diloreto said that she currently has to travel to Phoenix or Tempe to get medical marijuana.
"(A dispensary) would benefit patients in the area as well as the community," Diloreto wrote in an email to the city.
There are no medical marijuana dispensaries operating in the city between the Scottsdale Airpark and Tempe, according to a city memo.
unday Goods hopes to change that as the number of medical marijuana users in Maricopa County has increased by nearly 400%.
But city rules that dictates how far away dispensaries must be from schools could present a problem. A preschool operates down the street from the proposed dispensary location.
Scottsdale's Planning Commission voted 6-1 in August to recommend that the City Council approve the dispensary.
The agreement is written with a stipulation that if the council approves the request, the dispensary would not be able to open until the preschool moves, Cluff says.
The conditional use permit and zoning cases for Sunday Goods were scheduled to go before the the City Council on Tuesday, but the hearing has been postponed until Nov. 12.
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