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.
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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.