Some businesses sent a clear message that they don't want a medical marijuana dispensary in a Natick office park.

NATICK – Some business owners in an office park where a proposed medical marijuana dispensary could locate said it’s not a good fit for the area.

Gary Holmes, who owns a couple of properties in the park, told Selectmen Tuesday the dispensary sought by Bountiful Farms doesn’t match the town’s stated goal of making the park a center for high-tech and life-science businesses.

“I question the logic of placing this in a (business) park setting,” Holmes said.

Gary Kaufman, a co-owner of a life-sciences building, doubts a medical marijuana dispensary can make enough money long-term to stay in business,

“I am sure in (the Bountiful Farms') business plan that they can get recreational marijuana there. It’s the only way they can survive long-term,” Kaufman said.

Developer William Foley owns a building at 6 Strathmore Road, and said a daycare center in the building is no longer interested in expanding because it would be next to the dispensary. A high-tech engineering firm also told Foley it doesn’t want to sign a 10-year lease in the park after it found out about the dispensary.

Bountiful Farms wants to open a 4,000 square-foot facility at 13 Mercer Road, behind Crown Plaza on Rte. 9.

Jeffrey Barton, the company’s chief executive officer, told the board there is a stigma around marijuana, and his company’s products focus on improving people’s lives.

The board was not ready to vote on a host community agreement, a state requirement for a marijuana business, and a letter of non-opposition, which indicates the town’s support for the dispensary. Barton was asked to return to the board’s Feb. 4 meeting, when those documents could be approved.

Bountiful Farms also needs a special permit from the Planning Board, and Selectmen Richard Jennett said he would vote for the HCA, but only if the permit includes a guarantee the dispensary will not open a recreational marijuana business on the site.

Barton said he would sign the permit with that condition.

The board decided not to entertain the possibility of a zoning change to the area where Bountiful Farms wants to locate the dispensary. It is zoned for medical marijuana, and the board expressed concern of a future possibility the state Cannabis Control Commission could allow dispensaries to open recreational marijuana businesses at their locations.

A preemptive zoning change could stop such a move in the future, the board said. Ultimately, the board reached consensus not to change the zoning after Barton said he would look to another community to open the dispensary if Natick changed the zoning.

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