About 400 people filled the gymnasium at Waterford District High School on Saturday afternoon to hear a variety of concerns about cannabis production in Norfolk County.
The information session was organized by south-end Waterford residents Orval Slack and Daphne Bernard Schuyler. The pair have so far amassed 162 signed complaint forms that have been submitted to Norfolk County.
“At the edge of our subdivision, there are some homes that back onto a field,” said Slack, a retired police officer. “In that field is a series of five or six hooped greenhouses.”
Slack said he has no issue with L1 or Part 1 cannabis producers, such as FIGR Norfolk, whose representatives noted their 20,000-square-foot facility in the area of Grigg Drive and Park Road in Simcoe employs 25, has no windows, emits no odours, and is adjacent to established industrial and commercial businesses.
“Any municipality is struggling to find additional business, which result in additional jobs and tax revenues,” Slack said. “Those L1’s will contribute to that without having a negative impact on whoever’s around it.”
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