An applicant for the first cannabis dispensary that would open in Springfield will give formal testimony to the Planning Board in August.
In advance of that, the Springfield Planning Board held an informal discussion of the applicant at its Monday, July 11 Zoom meeting.
An applicant is being considered to open a dispensary at 130 Route 22, to fill a vacancy in a multi-tenant space that also houses Advance Auto Parts and Touka, a Japanese hibachi restaurant.
Demand for medical marijuana may be booming in New Jersey and the public has overwhelmingly learned to accept that cannabis can provide real medical benefits for certain patients.
But finding an acceptable location to grow and process the drug may still be tricky, even in rural farming communities.
That reality was plain to see Tuesday night when more than a hundred people packed into Springfield’s small municipal building for a planning board hearing on a proposal to develop a medical marijuana cultivation and processing operation off Juliustown Road.
The would-be operator of a proposed medical marijuana dispensary in Riverside is also seeking a license and to cultivate and process the drug at a site in this rural township.
Moorestown attorney Christopher Baxter and his new business, Bailey Farm LLC, is seeking approval from the Springfield Township Planning Board to build a 30,000-square-foot greenhouse and 8,000-square foot processing building on a 33-acre tract of land off Juliustown Road.
Bailey Farms LLC and owner Moorestown attorney Christopher Baxter have eyed up Springfield for a potential cultivation and processing facility but at the recent town meeting more voices in opposition than those in favor came out to speak.
