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From YouTube: Boston Cannabis Board "BCB" Hearing September 21, 2022

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Boston Cannabis Board "BCB" Hearing September 21, 2022

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We're just gonna give it a moment and let everyone come in from.

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All right so good afternoon, this has been hearing before the Boston cannabis board. Today is September 21st 2022.. Today's hearing is being conducted pursuant to start in temporary amendments to the open meeting law. That is what allows us to meet. Virtually this hearing is being recorded and will be posted to the city of Boston's website before I review. Some procedural matters I will introduce Cheryl and Kathleen Joyce. Thank.

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You Jasmine good afternoon. My name is Kathleen Joyce and chair of the Boston cannabis board, and today we are joined by commissioner Lisa Holmes and commissioner John Smith.

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And my name is Jasmine Nguyen and I am the Boston cannabis board manager. We are also joined by Allison Quinn, who is the project manager for the BCB, while the public is encouraged to attend, there will be no additional public testimony accepted I will read each item into the record after I will ask for comments from each board. Member I will then ask if there's a motion, any questions on the motion, and then there will be a vote. Each board.

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Member has the ability to grant grant with conditions defer, reject without prejudice, which means the applicant can return anytime with an application at the same location or reject with prejudice, which means the applicant cannot reapply at the same location. For one year we will begin with the first item, which is Mayflower medicinals ink. The license, Plymouth is 230, Harvard Avenue Austin, the license type is a co-located medical and recreational cannabis dispensary license. The request was for a change of offensive and directors.

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No changes are proposed that will impact the current director and direct ownership of Mayflower. um Do any other commission have any questions or comments about this request? I have no issues seeing none chairwoman rejoices their motion.

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You're, muted, sorry, I vote to approve there a second all in favor and none opposed, so the change is granted for a change of officers and directors.

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The next item is the applicant is sweet and sour LLC. The proposed license permits is 565 Columbus, Avenue, South End, the license type is a recreational cannabis dispensary license. The proposed hours of operations are 10 a.m to 9 p.m. Seven days a week- and this is the equity applicant. We will begin with questions and comments from the board members, starting with Sharon.

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Rejoice, thank you Jasmine. At the hearing last week, um the applicant was in the process of waiting for the results from a engineering study that would give us the um the engineered measurement of the distance between this application and the other one that has been approved by this board. He had to use Google Maps up to that point and had testified that he was not within a buffer zone.

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Two days ago we received the engineer report and it turns out the land survey certified that the actual distance is 2525 feet which brings him brings this location within the buffer zone. I want to remind everyone of our the amendment to the City council's Campus ordinance in States in section 8-13.6, that in cases where there are two or more licensed retail establishments within a half mile radius of the proposed site, retail applicants shall be subject to a heightened scrutiny in a rebuttable presumption against the proposed location.

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So, for that reason, I believe we didn't have an opportunity to um to review the application in light of this buffer zone and um in it's my opinion that it's incomplete, we didn't have a chance to to um discuss this rebuttable presumption. We didn't have a chance to evaluate the heightened scrutiny.

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um So those are my comments and this is why we recommend people get these certified land surveys before the public hearings.

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Commissioner homes, do you have any comments.

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um Not at this time again, I agree with the chairperson, since we just got all this information about the butters um buffer zone and um more information just received this morning. um I I just feel that we didn't really have a lot of time to really put all that stuff together.

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Smith thanks Jasmine no I, don't have any comment clear.

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Motion I moved to defer the vote on this I'm I believe the applicant should um should appear before us in October. um In light of this new information, I think the application is completely different. Now that we have a certified land survey that clearly establishes that there's a buffer zone is.

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There a second all in favor and none opposed, so this applicant will be deferred and reheard at our October 12th hearing to represent rights.

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I think it's important um to me. It's an incomplete application based upon what we heard last.

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All right so defer to our October hearing where the applicant will represent under the um buffer zone security. Yes, all right, so those are all the matters before the board today, as mentioned, our next hearing is October 12 2022 at 1 pm. Hope everyone enjoyed the rest of their day and see you next month, foreign.