Green Medicine LLC owner Dan Sullivan requested that the Rifle Planning and Zoning Commission recommend to city council that they allow his marijuana cultivation site to expand. The addition could bring in as much as $75,000 more in annual tax revenues to the city, Sullivan said.
Located in a light industrial zone south of Interstate 70, the site, which cultivates marijuana for The Green Joint dispensaries throughout the area, will attach a 608 square foot greenhouse to an existing warehouse.
“We’re looking to increase capacity to grow and cultivate cannabis,” Sullivan said. “… We’re not looking to increase production but we’re looking to increase our green factor.”
Instead of using “high energy,” Sullivan said the greenhouse will allow cultivation to be produced using natural, ambient sunlight.
The current facility, which was first approved for a conditional use permit in 2013 to cultivate medical marijuana, uses growing lights and climate control systems. A greenhouse, which would add 7,000 square feet of cultivation area to the existing structure, would use just 33% of all electricity and add 4-6 fulltime jobs to the area, according to documents submitted by Green Medicine to the city.
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