The City of Richmond “unreasonably cancelled” a building permit application for a cannabis greenhouse on a property in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), a BC Supreme Court judge has ruled.
In a judicial review published Nov. 3, Justice Andrew Mayer quashed the decision of a city building inspector to cancel the building permit application last year, and ordered the city to issue the permit.
In December 2019, Linda English petitioned the court to review the city’s decision to deny her application to build a greenhouse for cannabis production on her Garden City Road property, which is in the ALR.
English applied to the city to build the soil-based greenhouse in May 2019, which according to the decision, would be used to cultivate agricultural crops, including cannabis, “that could result in medicinal or non-medicinal end uses.”
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