Cannabis growing, product manufacturing OK'd outside industrial zone
A largely agricultural area in northern Vineland is open now to businesses seeking to grow and manufacture recreational marijuana products, even though official city policy restricts such activities to industrial areas.
After a public hearing Wednesday night, the municipal Zoning Board voted 6 to 1 to set aside the City Council-approved restriction and issue a use variance to a company lined up to buy about 18.5 acres off Old Forest Grove Road and North West Boulevard. The property presently belongs to Turf Construction.