WESTBROOK – Months after the Zoning Commission approved a marijuana retailer, residents upset with that decision are asking the commissioners to ban all future marijuana stores in their neighborhood along the Boston Post Road.
Some on the commission suggested that they were open to the idea, which comes after the commission’s January vote to allow BUDR to open a marijuana retail store at 755 Boston Post Road, the location of a former package store near West Beach. The commission approved the marijuana store by a 4-1 vote, even after residents packed public hearings to argue the store didn’t fit the residential beach community.
On Monday night, Westbrook resident Dave Russell said those who opposed BUDR wanted to ensure that no other marijuana store would be able to open in the town’s NCD zone – a mixed commercial and residential zone along the Boston Post Road.
Russell said boating and beaches are the “bread and butter” of Westbrook, and that marijuana outlets would cause problems for the beach communities along the Boston Post Road.
“Our thought is that this area is something we should be guarding, protecting, and making an attraction for Westbrook, for the right types of businesses that would cultivate what I think most of us kind of want with the beach, and the boating, and restaurants – and other things that would support the kind of summer recreational environment of a pleasant New England town,” Russell said.
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