A special Princeton Council meeting to discuss allowing retail cannabis stores in Princeton, set for Jan. 18, has been postponed until at least March.
The meeting date had been announced at the Princeton Council’s Dec. 21, 2021, agenda-setting meeting, but it was not posted on the January 2022 meeting calendar, so the decision was made to postpone it, Princeton Councilwoman Eve Niedergang said.
Niedergang, who chairs the Princeton Cannabis Task Force, said the rescheduled meeting would likely take place in March, but neither a date nor a format for the meeting had been set as of press time.
The 22-member Princeton Cannabis Task Force presented its recommendations to the Princeton Council at the council’s Nov. 30, 2021, meeting. The recommendations generated both criticism and praise from meeting attendees.
The task force recommended five commercial areas that could be zoned to permit cannabis retail businesses: the area around the Dinky train station on lower Alexander Street; the Jugtown neighborhood on east Nassau Street; the Central Business District; Witherspoon Street, between Green Street and Leigh Avenue; and Route 206, near Cherry Valley Road.
There would be no minimum distance from churches, playgrounds and parks, but the proximity of cannabis stores would mirror the regulations for liquor stores. A liquor store must be at least 200 feet away from a school.
The federal drug-free zone around schools is 1,000 feet, but task force…
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A special Princeton Council meeting to discuss allowing retail cannabis stores in Princeton, set for Jan. 18, has been postponed until at least March.
The meeting date had been announced at the Princeton Council’s Dec. 21, 2021, agenda-setting meeting, but it was not posted on the January 2022 meeting calendar, so the decision was made to postpone it, Princeton Councilwoman Eve Niedergang said.
Niedergang, who chairs the Princeton Cannabis Task Force, said the rescheduled meeting would likely take place in March, but neither a date nor a format for the meeting had been set as of press time.
The 22-member Princeton Cannabis Task Force presented its recommendations to the Princeton Council at the council’s Nov. 30, 2021, meeting. The recommendations generated both criticism and praise from meeting attendees.
The task force recommended five commercial areas that could be zoned to permit cannabis retail businesses: the area around the Dinky train station on lower Alexander Street; the Jugtown neighborhood on east Nassau Street; the Central Business District; Witherspoon Street, between Green Street and Leigh Avenue; and Route 206, near Cherry Valley Road.
There would be no minimum distance from churches, playgrounds and parks, but the proximity of cannabis stores would mirror the regulations for liquor stores. A liquor store must be at least 200 feet away from a school.
The federal drug-free zone around schools is 1,000 feet, but task force…
