News » Potential Marijuana Farm Gets Land Use OK Near Longmont





The Boulder County Commission decided not to hold a public hearing to discuss an application to cultivate, harvest and store marijuana inside buildings at a former organic egg farm in the county on Yellowstone Road. Angry citizens who neighbor the 67-acre farm were present to vent their frustrations at the commission’s refusal to reconsider the application.

“I do not want to see marijuana fields all over the state of Colorado,” one resident said.

Lucky for her, she won’t see that. The marijuana cultivation application for land use was made for an existing agricultural zoned property and the growing will all take place indoors. Chances are she won’t even see any of the operations going on at all, unless she trespasses onto the 67-acre property to do so.

The land use permit made it through just before the new rules for where medical marijuana facilities can be housed were finalized on June 8. The farm is currently owned by Steve and Cyd Szymanski, former chicken raisers, who want to sell the land to Scott Mullner, a city council member and business man in Laramie, Wyoming. With the approval, the sale may go through.

Petitions, letters and emails from both sides of the argument for and against the permitting of the farm flooded the commission. A design engineer for specialized greenhouses said it would be a chance for the Longmont area to become a showcase for state-of-the-art passive solar greenhouse systems.

[source Longmont Times]

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