For the third time in five years, voters in Niles Township will get a chance to decide whether adult use marijuana businesses should be allowed in the township. According to The Herald-Palladium, township board members voted this week to put two citizen-led petition proposals on the Nov. 4 ballot.
The new proposals on the ballot will ask voters whether the zoning amendment approved earlier this year that laid down requirements businesses must follow to open should be repealed and whether adult use marijuana businesses should be totally outlawed in the township.
Voters rejected allowing marijuana businesses in the township in 2020 but approved them in another vote last November. The township board has restricted marijuana businesses to a one and a half-mile stretch of S. 11th Street from Fulkerson Road to the Indiana state line.
According to The Herald-Palladium, the township has collected at least $145,000 in license fees from 29 businesses planning to open in the township. It's unclear what would happen to those businesses should residents vote to outlaw them.
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