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Chandler has approved no applications for medical-marijuana dispensaries, and no applications are pending.
So the city will see no direct impact from the state lottery Tuesday that will determine which applicants are authorized to open shop.
A total of 486 applications statewide have been turned in, and most of the winners will be chosen in a drawing to be streamed live on the department's website starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Approval to operate a dispensary is not complete until the department is notified that the dispensary is ready to be inspected.
In April 2011, the Chandler City Council unanimously denied a request from an applicant to open a dispensary at Dobson and Frye roads.
The dispensary would have been a 1,500-square-foot site across from Chandler Regional Medical Center. The council said the location was too close to homes, and the council feared setting a precedent by approving what City Attorney Mary Wade described as "minor deviations" from the city ordinance.
The ordinance requires that a dispensary be at least a quarter-mile, or 1,320 feet, from day-care centers, parks, schools, libraries, churches and hospitals.
The site would have been 521 feet from the hospital and 191 feet from the closest single-family home north across Frye Road. It would have been 210 feet from a multifamily complex to the west.
"We still have two neighborhoods within 500 feet, and another concern is precedent. ... If we deviate from our standards ... before you know it, we have no standards," City Council member Matt Orlando said at the time.
The applicant was McNatt LLC, owned by business partners Darrell and Vicki Tannatt and Jay and Anita McClintock.
People authorized to use medical marijuana who live more than 25 miles from a dispensary can grow the plant.
Neighboring cities with dispensaries within 25 miles of Chandler residents would stop self-supply in Chandler.
The Arizona Department of Health Services divided the state into 126 Community Health Analysis Areas, or CHAAs. There were no applications in 27 of them, said department spokeswoman Laura Oxley.
Only one dispensary will be permitted in any one CHAA. Seventy-five areas are competitive, meaning there is more than one application for them.
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Source: azcentral.com
Author: Luci Scott
Contact: Contacting The Arizona Republic
Website: No medical-marijuana dispensaries in line for Chandler
So the city will see no direct impact from the state lottery Tuesday that will determine which applicants are authorized to open shop.
A total of 486 applications statewide have been turned in, and most of the winners will be chosen in a drawing to be streamed live on the department's website starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Approval to operate a dispensary is not complete until the department is notified that the dispensary is ready to be inspected.
In April 2011, the Chandler City Council unanimously denied a request from an applicant to open a dispensary at Dobson and Frye roads.
The dispensary would have been a 1,500-square-foot site across from Chandler Regional Medical Center. The council said the location was too close to homes, and the council feared setting a precedent by approving what City Attorney Mary Wade described as "minor deviations" from the city ordinance.
The ordinance requires that a dispensary be at least a quarter-mile, or 1,320 feet, from day-care centers, parks, schools, libraries, churches and hospitals.
The site would have been 521 feet from the hospital and 191 feet from the closest single-family home north across Frye Road. It would have been 210 feet from a multifamily complex to the west.
"We still have two neighborhoods within 500 feet, and another concern is precedent. ... If we deviate from our standards ... before you know it, we have no standards," City Council member Matt Orlando said at the time.
The applicant was McNatt LLC, owned by business partners Darrell and Vicki Tannatt and Jay and Anita McClintock.
People authorized to use medical marijuana who live more than 25 miles from a dispensary can grow the plant.
Neighboring cities with dispensaries within 25 miles of Chandler residents would stop self-supply in Chandler.
The Arizona Department of Health Services divided the state into 126 Community Health Analysis Areas, or CHAAs. There were no applications in 27 of them, said department spokeswoman Laura Oxley.
Only one dispensary will be permitted in any one CHAA. Seventy-five areas are competitive, meaning there is more than one application for them.
News Hawk- TruthSeekr420 420 MAGAZINE
Source: azcentral.com
Author: Luci Scott
Contact: Contacting The Arizona Republic
Website: No medical-marijuana dispensaries in line for Chandler
