Cassara Grasso, a local business owner, previously petitioned the council to consider adding allowances for retail dispensaries, a change that Councilman Justin Musella spoke in favor of.
Musella said it was important to keep businesses in the township and to look into alternative revenue streams for it.
"At the last council meeting, four entrepreneurs presented what I consider to be a weak case for revisiting the ordinance to allow retail cannabis businesses to operate in the township. Almost nothing was said about the benefits of purely recreational cannabis," Venezia said.
Grasso stated in her petition that an amendment would allow the township to increase its revenue. For example, the township would receive 2 percent of the proceeds from each sale made by the future dispensary.