Retail weed stores can go anywhere in Westport?
Yes, that’s right, marijuana businesses can go anywhere there is a business district.
Why? Because we are operating under a zoning bylaw that pot promoters and store owners snuck onto the backside of a special Town Meeting held in February 2020.
Please consider helping put an end to this usurpation of voter discretion by attending our annual Town Meeting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 5, at the high school, where several important questions related to recreational marijuana stores will be decided.
What will be different about this vote, and will we continue to be tortured by moneyed special interests tenaciously pursuing their objectives at subsequent Town Meetings? Hopefully not, as the zoning bylaws being considered will require a two-thirds majority to pass. This makes it harder to pass but harder to overturn. This is why your vote, or at the very least one vote from your household, is needed on Saturday.