Avalon Borough Council scheduled the public hearing and potential adoption of its proposed marijuana ordinance for Feb. 27, after procedural difficulties had forced the borough to remove consideration of the ordinance from its first meeting that month.
Once again, the ordinance failed to come up for consideration as council formally tabled it. Assistant Business Administrator James Waldron explained that additional changes needed to be made, which would necessitate starting over with the two-step process required for new municipal laws.
Avalon had been working for weeks to craft an ordinance that would ban the sale of marijuana within the borough. The move came in response to legislation making its way through the Legislature to legalize the adult recreational use of marijuana, along with a push to expand the program for medical marijuana.