HINSDALE â Itâs round two in Hinsdale for neighbors who succeeded last year in persuading a company to move a proposed cannabis farm to the other side of town.
On Wednesday night, a different grower, Sunlight Farms, is expected to secure a needed Host Community Agreement with the Select Board. Officials expect similar questions to arise about a facility on Peru Road â mainly about odors.
âYouâre going to have the same group of people who have already been very vocal,â said Richard Scialabba, chair of the Select Board. âWhatâs going to happen? I have no idea.â
Silver Therapeutics, which runs cannabis retail outlets in Williamstown and Orange, proposes to create a cultivation facility at a former mink farm at 172 Peru Road. Last December, CEO Josh Silver outlined the plan to the Select Board. In the months since, lawyers for both sides have worked out a 17-page agreement that spells out conditions.
Benjamin Zachs, president of FFD Enterprises MA, addresses a Zoom session Thursday, convened by the Hinsdale Select Board, which held a public hearing on the companyâs plans for an outdoor cannabis farm on Bullards Crossing Road. The board granted the company a needed special permit. SCREENSHOT TAKEN BY LARRY PARNASS
HINSDALE â Before a videoconference closed Thursday, the folks proposing a Hinsdale cannabis farm seeded the âchatâ with their phone numbers and email addresses â tokens of their promises to remain accessible.
They left with a newly granted special permit, after promising that neighborsâ concerns about odors, heavy water use and road dust would prove to be unfounded.
Tonight is the night for the public hearing in Hinsdale and there are some changes with the Cannabis proposal, like the location of the major outdoor growing operation, and the name of the company.
A Connecticut company is proposing to build a 91,000-square-foot cannabis cultivation facility in a former gravel pit (at lower right in this photo) on Bullards Crossing Road in Hinsdale. GOOGLE MAPS
HINSDALE â As a cannabis proposal waited, and waited, to come to a public hearing in Hinsdale â eight months in all â a lot changed.
The location of a major outdoor growing operation, for one.
And the name of the company.
Instead of pitching a greenhouse and fields on Peru Road, near Ashmere Lake in the northeast part of town, a Connecticut company now aims to seed its project five miles south in a less-populated area on Bullards Crossing Road, close to the Washington line.