North Andover Selectmen Delay Vote on Pot Proposals

NORTH ANDOVER -- The Board of Selectmen on Monday delayed voting on a proposal to locate a medical marijuana cultivation facility at 1600 Osgood St. until the annual Town Meeting next month, according to the Eagle-Tribune.

The board voted to wait until the annual Town Meeting on May 16 to make its recommendations on Article 9, which would amend the zoning bylaw to permit the cultivation of medical marijuana at 1600 Osgood St., The Eagle-Tribune reports.

Article 11 also calls for changing the zoning map to include an expanded medical marijuana overlay district.

The board did support Article 10, which would authorize selectmen and Town Manager Andrew Maylor to negotiate a "host community agreement" with the medical marijuana cultivator, according to the Eagle-Tribune.

The medical marijuana biofarm would take up about 1.1 million square feet at the former factory. It would not be a dispensary.

For the past decade, most of the space at 1600 Osgood St. has been vacant.

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