Potential hashish companies in search of to open dispensaries on Lengthy Island are operating into a number of points and roadblocks with the proposed or adopted zoning laws limiting operators to primarily industrial areas.
Because it stands, dispensaries can open solely in Lengthy Island cities that opted in for retail hashish gross sales. Up to now, Babylon, Brookhaven, Riverhead and Southampton have opted-in to allow leisure hashish gross sales. In three of the 4 opt-in areas, laws has been adopted or proposed that will hold the dispensaries out of busy downtown areas, and stick them in business and out-of-the-way areas. The one municipality to vote on and approve of a zoning modification has been Brookhaven.
To be taught extra about every municipality and the place their rules stand to this point, see under.
Brookhaven City officers accredited a city zoning modification that has banned hashish gross sales inside 500 ft of houses or 1,000 ft of faculties, homes of worship, hospitals, libraries, parks, playgrounds, gyms, dance studios or at related public or semi-public place of common congregation. Hashish dispensaries have to be not less than 1 mile other than one another. The zoning modification bans hashish smoking rooms and retail shops from downtown enterprise districts.
Babylon
In Babylon, according to Newsday, officers are anticipated to undertake related rules to Brookhaven. The laws would permit dispensaries, consumption websites and microbusinesses solely in areas zoned industrial and would prohibit them from working inside a 1,000-foot radius of a residential space. The companies additionally wouldn’t be allowed inside a 200-foot radius of non secular properties or inside a 500-foot radius of Ok-12 schooling services, libraries, parks, playgrounds, child-care facilities, youth organizations, dance studios, batting cages, gymnasiums or different venues “the place minors congregate.”
Hashish companies additionally couldn’t function inside a 500-foot radius of one other such enterprise, whereas, in Brookhaven, mentioned enterprise have to be 1 mile aside.
Riverhead
Beneath Riverhead’s proposed rules, retail and on-site consumption institutions can be permitted solely in sure sections of city. These districts embrace together with Enterprise Middle, Buying Middle, Vacation spot Retail Middle, Rural Hall, Downtown Middle 1, 2 and three, Hamlet Middle, Village Middle, Peconic River Group and Enterprise F zoning use districts.
The code would require a minimal distance of 1,000 ft from faculties, daycare services and libraries, in addition to 500 ft from locations of worship, seashores, parks, group facilities and amusement companies.
Hashish companies would additionally not be allowed inside 1,000 ft of an current residential use or a mixed-use improvement containing a residential use, or inside 2,500 ft of one other hashish enterprise. Lastly, the proposed code outlines safety necessities, mandating the enterprise to submit each a safety plan and an odor administration plan to the city.
Southampton
Southampton is the one city that has not proposed zoning legal guidelines for retail hashish. The Southampton City Supervisor Jay Schneiderman indicated that the city is ready for additional steerage from the state.
Mr. Schneiderman indicated on the minimal, they are going to suggest legal guidelines holding dispensaries away from locations the place kids congregate, resembling libraries and playgrounds, however will bear in mind considerations from the group, together with visitors and security.