When the State legalized recreational cannabis sales, the Township automatically became the home to one facility in the medical marijuana site on Route One which was grandfathered in by law and our preference was to have only that one site.
However, when the possibility of locating another retail shop at the Adult Book Store parcel on Route 1 South came up, we decided to allow for one additional cannabis facility.
The bookstore will be demolished and the business in the newer building to its left is already closed to allow the building to be retrofitted for retail cannabis sales once the appropriate license is obtained.
We will allow other operational categories like cultivation and wholesale production as long as they do not interfere with our residential neighborhoods. There is one such plan on a junkyard site in town and we will make that trade any day. We collect 2% of all sales from these facilities that will provide an additional $1 million to our Township budget within a few years.