The Township Council has adopted an ordinance that will amend Aberdeen Township’s Commerce and Transportation Center Redevelopment Plan and allow five types of cannabis businesses to operate in one area of the municipality.
New Jersey law permits six marketplace classes of licensed cannabis businesses: cultivator; manufacturer; wholesaler; distributor; retails sales; and delivery service for cannabis and/or cannabis related products.
Permitted conditional uses for cannabis businesses in the specified area in Aberdeen Township will be cultivators; manufacturers; wholesalers; distributors; and delivery services.
Cannabis retail shops will not be permitted to operate anywhere in the municipality.
Council members adopted the ordinance during a meeting on July 22.
During the public hearing that preceded the council’s vote to adopt the ordinance, resident Paul Rinear asked officials what the new law permits.
Councilman Greg Cannon said the ordinance “allows cannabis businesses other than retailers (to operate) in the (Aberdeen-Matawan) train station redevelopment area.”