Aspen Wine & Spirits claimed victory in a court trial Thursday after a judge ordered that its neighbor Clark’s Market isn’t allowed to sell full-strength beer because of anti-competitive agreements.
The Grand Junction City Council discussed recommendations at its Monday work session from the Planning Commission on how to regulate marijuana businesses in the city.
Voters will decide if they will allow marijuana businesses to operate in the city in the April election.
However, City Manager Greg Caton said the city was trying to provide voters with a potential framework for how those businesses would be regulated if they are allowed.
âIâm sure council can appreciate weâre creating a framework or an outline of what our community members might anticipate where we could potentially head with this if it is approved by the voters, but yet how much detail do we do before the voters see it,â Caton said. âSo thatâs the balance weâre trying to strike.â
The Grand Junction City Council discussed recommendations at its Monday work session from the Planning Commission on how to regulate marijuana businesses in the city.
Voters will decide if they will allow marijuana businesses to operate in the city in the April election.
However, City Manager Greg Caton said the city was trying to provide voters with a potential framework for how those businesses would be regulated if they are allowed.
âIâm sure council can appreciate weâre creating a framework or an outline of what our community members might anticipate where we could potentially head with this if it is approved by the voters, but yet how much detail do we do before the voters see it,â Caton said. âSo thatâs the balance weâre trying to strike.â
Since early January, the Grand Junction Planning Commission has been considering potential land use regulations for marijuana-related businesses and intends to deliver its recommendations to the City Council next month.
In early January, the Planning Commission began reviewing the different types of marijuana businesses that could be allowed in Grand Junction â specifically retail stores, cultivation and products manufacturing.
Community Development Director Tamra Allen said this work was at the direction of the City Council in a December work session.
âWeâve been talking extensively through the land use components, impacts and issues related to retail sales, cultivation and manufactured products,â Allen said. âWe have really been asking the Planning Commission to review the actual uses, to understand how they operate, what the stateâs regulatory framework is and then provide some context for what they think would be the preferred or recommended way t
One of the big questions surrounding retail marijuana in Grand Junction, if voters in April approve to allow the businesses, is over where those stores will be allowed to locate.