The Bayonne City Council is expected to pass an ordinance Wednesday restricting all marijuana dispensaries to the most industrial sections of the city.
Council President Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski was the only councilmember to vote against the measure upon its introduction, but in an interview Monday she said she is now in support of it.
Bayonne’s existing laws allow dispensaries on certain commercial corridors in the middle of the city, including on stretches of Broadway and Kennedy Boulevard. Those areas would be excluded in the new zoning rules.
Instead, marijuana dispensaries, cultivators, manufacturers and deliverers would only be in the city’s “Heavy Industrial District” and the neighboring “Highway Commercial/Selected Light Industrial District,” which are exactly how they sound: areas separated from much of Bayonne’s housing and retail by Route 440 and largely occupied by warehouses, manufacturers and facilities like a power station.
“We need to restrict the zoning further,” Ashe-Nadrowski said.