PARK TOWNSHIP BOARD EXTENDS MORATORIUM ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA

Park Township, MI - Thursday Meeting

KEY ACTION: A moratorium on medical marijuana will stand for another
six months while Park Township officials wait and see what might happen.

DISCUSSION: A zoning rule would have relegated medical marijuana
caregivers to commercial property, required them to come to the
Planning Commission for a special use permit and imposed other
limitations. The board instead voted 4-3 to extend a moratorium on
commercial medical marijuana facilities for another six months.

The planning commission, which created the ordinance, intentionally
left the new zoning vague so it could address each request.

Ensuring caregivers are conforming to local code and to the state
standard of up to five patients, 12 plants or 2.5 ounces of dried
marijuana per patient would have been complaint-driven.

"I hesitate to pass an ordinance that has no possibility of being
enforced," Supervisor Amanda Price said.

The Planning Commission is expected to re-examine the proposed
ordinance in a few months in light of any new data.

"We can't do nothing. We can't just keep kicking this down the road,"
Trustee Bob Ellis said.