People are usually pretty protective about what goes on in their neighbourhood, so a couple's proposal to open a cannabis facility on their own property in Coverdale, New Brunswick, has the neighbours talking. They've received a letter about the potential re-zoning needed to enable the project proposed by Gina Brown and her partner Jared.
They are licensed to grow cannabis outdoors on the land they own, but the dream has been to move their production to a secure cannabis facility indoors.
"In July we got confirmation from Health Canada saying everything was approved, now you just need to put together the site evidence package," said Brown, the co-owner of Anchor Cannabis. "So, at that point, it's like everything looks good, just show us your building."
But a building permit from the cannabis production facility directive was denied.
That's because their agricultural land must now be re-zoned to industrial.
"Anything that's being grown outdoors right now is still considered agriculture," said Joshua Adams, the Southeast Regional Service Commission planner. "It's just the indoor cultivation, and any other uses, so processing or transformation, that kinda stuff would be in that industrial zone."
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