Jacob Redmond
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Newberg will get its first medical marijuana dispensary later this year, but due to a number of factors, including the city's zoning limitations, it isn't likely to have much competition in the market.
The city of Newberg has submitted a zoning compliance letter to Canna Bros., which has undertaken tenant improvements to a retail space at 2316 Portland Road, just east of the Goodwill store.
Newberg Community Development Director Doug Rux said that Canna Bros., which is owned by Sherwood's Lester Brock, is so far the only entity to apply to the city for a zoning compliance letter, which is required by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA).
"With the regulations that the city adopted, these types of facilities can only be in our C-2, which is a commercial zone," Rux said. "It has to be 1,000 feet from a park or school. It has hours of operation limitations from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m."
Brock, who owns his own general contracting company, said he doesn't expect to get final approval from the OHA and therefore open for two to three months.
"We're very clean cut and are doing it strictly for business reasons," Brock said. "With dispensaries, there is a big range why people do it. Some people do it because it's a passion, others do it because it's a business. For us, it's a business opportunity."
Brock said he was not motivated to be the first dispensary in Newberg, but is aware that there are limited opportunities due to the city's zoning.
Most of the zoning open to dispensaries is along the Portland Road corridor, but if Canna Bros. is approved by the state, another 1,000-foot buffer will be placed around it in which no other dispensaries would be allowed.
The only other available areas are small pockets on the far west side of downtown, some along the Portland Road corridor and a few on the far north end of town. Add in finding suitable spaces and actual vacancies and the number of viable options narrows significantly.
"If you go along Portland Road at 1,000-ft intervals it really limits the options you have," interim city planning and building director Steve Olson said. "I think there's (very little) space ... you might be able to get three or four. I think that's the most you could see. That would be everything working out for those applicants, but more realistically you might just get a couple."
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The city of Newberg has submitted a zoning compliance letter to Canna Bros., which has undertaken tenant improvements to a retail space at 2316 Portland Road, just east of the Goodwill store.
Newberg Community Development Director Doug Rux said that Canna Bros., which is owned by Sherwood's Lester Brock, is so far the only entity to apply to the city for a zoning compliance letter, which is required by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA).
"With the regulations that the city adopted, these types of facilities can only be in our C-2, which is a commercial zone," Rux said. "It has to be 1,000 feet from a park or school. It has hours of operation limitations from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m."
Brock, who owns his own general contracting company, said he doesn't expect to get final approval from the OHA and therefore open for two to three months.
"We're very clean cut and are doing it strictly for business reasons," Brock said. "With dispensaries, there is a big range why people do it. Some people do it because it's a passion, others do it because it's a business. For us, it's a business opportunity."
Brock said he was not motivated to be the first dispensary in Newberg, but is aware that there are limited opportunities due to the city's zoning.
Most of the zoning open to dispensaries is along the Portland Road corridor, but if Canna Bros. is approved by the state, another 1,000-foot buffer will be placed around it in which no other dispensaries would be allowed.
The only other available areas are small pockets on the far west side of downtown, some along the Portland Road corridor and a few on the far north end of town. Add in finding suitable spaces and actual vacancies and the number of viable options narrows significantly.
"If you go along Portland Road at 1,000-ft intervals it really limits the options you have," interim city planning and building director Steve Olson said. "I think there's (very little) space ... you might be able to get three or four. I think that's the most you could see. That would be everything working out for those applicants, but more realistically you might just get a couple."
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Full Article: Newberg set to get first medical marijuana dispensary
Author: Seth Gordon
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Website: Pamplin Media Group
