The Alma city commission has given provisional approval for the city's second medical cannabis grow operation.
The move will allow Bayside Cultivators, LLC, owned by Justin Luneack of St. Louis, 18 months to complete the remaining city and state requirements to receive a certificate of occupancy and open the facility, which will be located in a portion of the former Oxford Automotive Co. plant at 1325 E. Superior St.
A grow license allows the owner to acquire, possess, cultivate, deliver, transfer, transport, supply, and sell wholesale cannabis and related supplies to a licensed medical cannabis dispensaries, production facilities or other licensed cultivation operations only.
The city had previously approved a similar grow operation owned by Woody's Nursery Inc. of Middleville at 2125 Redman Court in the Alma North Industrial Park off Michigan Avenue, which will also include a medical cannabis processing center.
The location Bayside Cultivators chose already meets all city zoning requirements.