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[0:12] good morning

[0:28] me in the pledge i appreciate it

[0:32] i pledge allegiance to the side

[0:35] of the united states of america and to

[0:38] the republic

[0:39] for which it stands one nation under god

[0:43] indivisible with liberty and justice

[0:46] for all thank you so much for your

[0:49] patience

[0:50] uh everybody i'm hoping can hear me

[0:53] uh somebody treat their home

[0:59] i've been dying to do that all morning

[1:02] thank you

[1:03] uh first off uh i'd like to

[1:06] uh for a moment here uh i'd like to call

[1:09] for a moment of silence

[1:10] in honor of uh bill graham who was china

[1:13] the board of selection and passed away

[1:15] unexpectedly

[1:16] on uh on the 28th

[1:19] so if you're joining in on the

[1:21] assignments i'd appreciate it

[1:33] thank you i'd also like to offer myself

[1:36] sympathies to mary beth bishop

[1:44] contribution to this town uh was amazing

[1:48] and he was always very positive and he

[1:50] offered a lot

[1:51] of himself for it so again uh

[1:55] thank you um now if we could um

[2:00] get the uh i should probably recognize a

[2:03] few people

[2:04] i don't know if you notice that there's

[2:05] a lot of people running around here

[2:08] first i'd like to thank the

[2:12] administrator andrew for putting this

[2:14] all together

[2:15] along with the following list of people

[2:20] of course

[2:25] uh we have also uh uh

[2:29] in yellow vests uh and yellow jacket

[2:33] steve females

[2:44] and kelly flanders i never anticipated

[2:47] having

[2:48] about 150 plus people here at this hour

[2:51] and

[2:51] thank you so much for your patience uh

[2:54] as we allowed everybody that we can to

[2:56] come in uh when it comes time to go or

[2:59] when you have a question

[3:01] you of course will raise a paddle uh a

[3:04] yellow paddle for a question

[3:06] and the yellow jackets i'll be walking

[3:08] away from the microphone

[3:10] to uh scholar these individuals to see

[3:14] who

[3:14] meets my attention and who wants to come

[3:16] and speak to this

[3:18] uh next i'd like to thank uh

[3:22] also as well as the congress the

[3:24] registrar's

[3:26] uh captain priest anne escherman and

[3:28] shannon petro for checking you in

[3:30] they were here early this morning

[3:32] freezing

[3:33] mike martin chaotic from the rit

[3:36] department

[3:37] for the town of capital dave uh his crew

[3:40] from the emergency management

[3:43] agency the temporal communication media

[3:47] they please richard potts and tom and

[3:50] jerry cooper

[3:51] the highway department for uh quartering

[3:53] everything off

[3:55] a lot of people think a lot went into

[3:57] this

[3:58] several virtual meetings uh when this

[4:01] all

[4:02] fails which is why we're all here to see

[4:04] exactly when it fails

[4:05] uh i'll take the hill so uh from here

[4:09] uh green would you like to read the

[4:11] return to want

[4:26] and posted on february the 25th 2021 by

[4:29] constable quadroche and four public

[4:32] places

[4:33] pepper police station pepper post office

[4:35] miles barbershop and purple family

[4:37] pharmacy

[4:38] as well as the tested copies online we

[4:40] inhabited town of couple whom

[4:42] are qualified to vote in elections and

[4:44] child affairs are convening here today

[4:46] at mississippi middle school

[4:48] on the 13th day of march 2021 to act on

[4:51] the following

[4:52] article as initiated by a citizen's

[4:54] petition

[4:55] due to the quoted 19 pandemic there was

[4:57] a concern that there would not be

[4:59] a plan to go forward with today's

[5:00] meeting the people select were voted at

[5:03] their daily notice february the 22nd

[5:05] 2021 meeting to reduce the special time

[5:08] meeting forum requirement

[5:09] is established in the code of assigned a

[5:10] couple from 75 voters to 30

[5:13] as allowed in the act of 2020 relative

[5:16] to municipal

[5:17] governance thank you

[5:26] i guess at this particular uh uh point

[5:28] in time we can

[5:29] uh call for the question

[5:33] somebody have a motion

[5:50] um

[6:05] uses the minimum statutory refinement

[6:07] and effectively restricts the number of

[6:09] retail marijuana shocks that may be

[6:10] permitted to one

[6:12] this amendment increases the allowed

[6:14] number of retail marijuana shops

[6:17] which exceeds the required

[6:33] now to ask a question

[6:36] or to speak to it

[6:40] at any time use a yellow placket to be

[6:42] recognized by any of the

[6:44] individuals in the yellow vessel jackets

[6:47] when they come time to vote or to cast a

[6:49] vote let me get to that point

[6:51] uh green placket is i or yes

[6:54] uh the red or orange placket is uh

[6:57] or no so do you want to speak to the

[7:00] article

[7:02] uh explanation presentation

[7:06] yeah i'm sorry i didn't know that

[7:09] already

[7:13] all right so i call for questions at

[7:15] this particular point in time

[7:18] oh i'm sorry yeah good point uh the

[7:20] cleaning board report

[7:23] there's a planning board

[7:26] oh okay

[7:42] this report and recommend recommendation

[7:44] to trial meeting

[7:45] is required by state sony law in order

[7:48] to comply with provisions of

[7:49] massachusetts general law

[7:51] chapter 40a section 5. the local

[7:54] planning board conducted

[7:56] conducting a properly noticed public

[7:58] hearing uh

[7:59] to amend section 6600 of the zoni bylaw

[8:03] adult use recreational marijuana the

[8:06] hearing was opened and closed on monday

[8:08] march 8

[8:09] 2021. in 2019

[8:12] at the toughest springtime two-thirds of

[8:15] the attendance

[8:16] voted in favor of article 16 to amend

[8:19] couple zoning bylaw to

[8:20] allow for adult abuse recreational

[8:23] establishment within certain zoning

[8:25] districts

[8:26] and students to receipt of a planning

[8:28] board special permit

[8:30] sub-section 6640.5

[8:33] of the regulations states that the

[8:35] number of marijuana establishments

[8:37] shall not exceed 20 the number

[8:40] of the number of alcohol license

[8:42] procedure from gl

[8:44] c 138 section 15 for retail sales

[8:49] of alcohol not to be drunk on the

[8:50] premise operator

[8:54] figure to be rounded to the whole number

[8:57] following the adoption of this bylaw

[8:59] there is some confusion as to whether

[9:00] this reference in the by-law refers to

[9:02] the number of operating workers slash

[9:04] pocket stores

[9:05] in the town of couple three will refer

[9:08] to the number of

[9:09] liquor licenses that could just the

[9:12] childhood issue based on its population

[9:14] eight to clarify this section of the

[9:17] bylaw

[9:18] training board held a public hearing

[9:20] review

[9:26] and voted to recommend the article for

[9:27] approval of the 2024 con meeting

[9:31] at the fall meeting no action was taken

[9:34] on the article

[9:35] giving concerns to federal council

[9:37] during the october 19th pandemic

[9:39] by extending the length of the meeting

[9:42] on february 4th

[9:43] 2021 a citizens petitioned to call a

[9:46] special count meeting

[9:47] to take up the dialogue amendment was

[9:50] circulated and received

[9:51] sufficient signatures to trigger a

[9:53] special child meeting

[9:54] the proposed changes to the language and

[9:56] resolving bylaw is the same that was

[9:58] previously recommended by the planning

[10:00] board by the public hearing

[10:03] to review the proposed amendment of the

[10:05] by-law

[10:07] for the citizens suspicion on march 8

[10:10] 202.

[10:11] the amendment will delete the subsection

[10:16] 6640.5 a

[10:19] consistent with mass gl c

[10:22] 94 g subsection 3b2

[10:26] the problem natural number of marijuana

[10:28] establishment when the time of petrol

[10:30] shall be related as follows

[10:32] the number of marijuana retailers shall

[10:34] not exceed 20 percent

[10:35] of the number of alcohol license issued

[10:37] pursuant to nglc

[10:40] 138 subsection 15 to recast as a

[10:43] remarkable

[10:44] not to be drunk on the premises john

[10:46] pepper say 20

[10:48] figure to be rounded to the next whole

[10:50] number and replace it with the following

[10:53] the number of marijuana retailers shall

[10:55] not exceed two

[10:57] additionally in section 6650

[11:00] the application required means the first

[11:04] sentence will be revised

[11:06] to delete in the amount up to not

[11:08] exceeding 20

[11:09] of the number of licenses issued by the

[11:11] account pursuant to mgl

[11:13] c138 subsection 15 for retail sales

[11:17] of alcohol baggage not to be drunk on

[11:19] premises only place with two

[11:22] the rationale behind this amendment is

[11:24] that the existing wording is confusing

[11:27] and the timing the number of marijuana

[11:29] retail establishments to the number of

[11:30] liquor licenses

[11:31] is arbitrary and leaves the number of

[11:34] marijuana retailers

[11:35] open-ended since the number of liquor

[11:37] license can be increased

[11:39] replacing this sentence with the number

[11:41] two fixes the number of native 100

[11:44] to a set number two which can only be

[11:48] verified through through tile meeting

[11:50] approval

[11:51] the planning board deliberated on the

[11:53] proposed valor amendment on march 8

[11:55] 2021 honey board meeting with a

[11:59] nomination of

[12:00] joe london and seconded by jennifer

[12:03] gingras the planning board recommends

[12:06] approval of article 1 as proposed

[12:14] thank you chad now uh

[12:17] finance committee has a report on this

[12:28] clinton cutler 43 bacon street the

[12:30] finance committee met on march 3rd

[12:33] 2001 to discuss the proposed amendment

[12:38] uh the finance committee voted for

[12:41] nothing

[12:42] and four to zero to approve the

[12:44] amendment

[12:46] thank you

[12:58] meeting held on february 26th 22nd 2021

[13:18] uh the time to be recognized

[13:21] there's a bit of a delay where there

[13:24] will be a bit of a delay

[13:25] i have to walk away from the microphone

[13:27] and recognize

[13:29] every ladies and gentlemen in yellow so

[13:32] if now is the time uh this is

[13:34] more of a question or

[13:37] point to make so let's go over that now

[14:42] um so one thing about this this

[14:47] article is that it would increase the

[14:49] number of licenses we currently have

[14:50] from one to two

[14:52] um let's kind of look at some recent

[14:54] studies for massachusetts news

[14:56] one uh dispensary for over a hundred

[14:58] thousand people

[15:00] and the place in the state really is

[15:02] around one probably six thousand people

[15:04] so

[15:05] this article would go and increase the

[15:07] number of licenses and people to one of

[15:09] the highest

[15:10] densities in the state and you know i

[15:13] know there's a lot of business people in

[15:14] the audience so you're thinking

[15:15] how can we go and sustain that sort of

[15:17] business

[15:19] and the answer is really simple it's

[15:20] right over the border you know so

[15:25] thousand hundred um people so right

[15:26] there here the number of people who will

[15:28] be coming across

[15:30] and will be your your uh market for

[15:32] these additional license

[15:33] so um you know one thing you really need

[15:36] to think about when you're according to

[15:38] this question is where are these people

[15:40] going to come from to go into spain two

[15:42] little

[15:43] two marijuana licenses in this town so

[15:46] if we want people coming across from new

[15:47] hampshire

[15:48] to come and buy here and then they know

[15:51] it's illegal to go and take the box and

[16:07] potentially taking up the time to our

[16:08] police officers to go and support

[16:11] the top habits of people from new

[16:13] hampshire

[16:16] thank you

[17:16] um

[17:29] i have somebody right here that's uh

[17:32] going first thank you

[17:52] um

[17:55] i'm not sure about the statistics that

[17:57] we just heard about to um

[18:26] uh

[18:40] um

[18:54] initially thank you

[19:22] um

[19:31] anyone else

[20:14] it's great to see all these people out

[20:16] here today

[20:29] come to us

[20:45] everyone has done a lot less damage

[20:54] thank you next week

[21:14] okay

[21:56] um

[21:58] to know

[22:03] very similar minutes on the marijuana

[22:10] business

[22:24] because from um research it looks to me

[22:27] like

[22:28] when the public was asked what type of

[22:30] um

[22:37] there was no mention of more retail

[22:41] market

[22:52] um

[23:11] my question is simply this

[23:14] i'm confused i think a lot of other

[23:16] people are confused

[23:17] or whether or not we're voting on one

[23:22] or two i think a lot of people feel

[23:25] true is not is too much but it's very

[23:28] confusing

[23:29] that's very funny i think if someone

[23:32] could try to

[23:33] explain that to it to me

[23:45] do you want to speak to that

[24:02] question no okay

[24:08] my question is how do you vote

[24:11] if you want to just if you've already

[24:14] approved

[24:14] one in a time and you

[24:24] how do you vote yes or no that's why i

[24:27] think i'm confused a lot of other people

[24:29] are confused

[24:57] once we open the door here what this

[24:59] gentleman is asking

[25:02] correct

[25:13] that yes your question all right george

[25:15] uh i believe that

[25:16] yeah you should come to the mic okay

[25:28] if if you are opposed to increasing the

[25:31] number of

[25:31] establishments to true you would vote no

[25:35] thank you very much that was my whole

[25:37] question

[25:40] thank you

[25:54] marijuana establishments as part of the

[25:56] economic development chapter

[25:59] the master plan for the town took over

[26:02] two and a half years to develop

[26:04] many topics were discussed economic

[26:06] development land use

[26:08] housing uh transportation

[26:11] the massive thing has written has a lot

[26:13] of different recommendations in it

[26:15] and are referenced in other sections

[26:18] while the

[26:19] minister plan committee did call out

[26:21] certain establishments

[26:22] it was not

[26:37] economic development uh specifically in

[26:40] the uh

[26:40] downtown area is needed uh in this this

[26:43] type of establishment would also benefit

[26:47] the vacancies in that section of the

[26:50] town

[27:04] uh

[27:32] we've got a couple so whoever comes

[27:46] first

[27:57] where's the closest one

[28:02] while we wait for the question to come

[28:04] to the mic

[28:05] uh everybody take a moment and pray that

[28:08] we don't have to do this

[28:11] i can't imagine it for 25 questions

[28:28] um

[28:43] have done a lot um research on this and

[28:45] i've

[28:46] gone to a lot of facilities throughout

[28:48] the states

[28:50] and cannabis right

[28:53] dispensaries they're run very

[28:55] professionally

[28:57] done by importance only

[29:00] there's not a lot of traffic involved in

[29:03] it

[29:04] um these dispensaries are very very

[29:08] professional

[29:10] there's not to

[29:19] people need to understand that

[29:22] a lot of people come from medicinal

[29:24] purposes

[29:25] we do not have enough medicinal cannabis

[29:29] uh places around in new england right

[29:32] now

[29:32] it should when we opened up cannabis

[29:35] places

[29:37] originally they were supposed to be for

[29:39] medicinal purpose only

[29:42] adult shops have opened up

[29:46] all over new england we've got hundreds

[29:49] of adult use service places all over

[29:54] uh they're popped up everywhere um

[29:58] basically for revenue and uh

[30:01] the town's needed and the couple needs

[30:04] it

[30:05] and we need the revenue the two

[30:09] uh voting on the two

[30:12] um canvas places is going to be a big

[30:15] shot in the end for purple

[30:18] i think we all need to relax a little

[30:21] bit

[30:22] and understand that these places are

[30:24] very professional

[30:26] and that's my opinion and

[30:30] i just wanted to share that with you

[30:31] because i have spent five years

[30:36] all of this uh in our nature uh because

[30:40] my grandchildren live there

[30:42] and that's why in the future

[30:45] after i've

[30:49] taking care of all the bills in new

[30:50] hampshire to make sure that they're all

[30:52] safe

[30:53] and the bills are in place uh

[30:56] they're not going to help massachusetts

[30:59] but um i think that this is

[31:02] good for purple and i just wanted you

[31:06] all to know

[31:07] the benefits of the experience thank you

[31:12] not sure

[31:30] um again i would just ask the two of my

[31:33] fellow towns people to

[31:34] allow our one permitted

[31:38] retail marijuana adult use shop to open

[31:42] and please let's take a look at what the

[31:45] impact if any

[31:46] is on our town our infrastructure on our

[31:49] police force

[31:50] on our emergency services maybe it's

[31:53] nothing

[31:54] then we can come back and revisit this

[31:57] at another time meeting

[31:59] the law is flexible that we're not

[32:02] closing the door

[32:03] by limiting it to one we're simply

[32:06] taking a less

[32:08] a slower approach to planning

[32:12] and commercial development in our town

[32:15] and my question for the master plan um

[32:19] basically is the reason for the master

[32:23] plan

[32:23] is to gather what the community wants

[32:26] gather

[32:29] and the people did not ask for retail

[32:33] marijuana

[32:34] they asked for other types of businesses

[32:37] and my final thought is

[32:39] aside from retail marijuana business

[32:42] there are

[32:43] other options um there is cultivation

[32:46] which i believe is more in line with

[32:49] agricultural

[32:50] history so there are options for that

[32:53] there are options for um testing jobs

[32:57] there are multiple options for marijuana

[32:59] businesses retail

[33:01] the big one and that's why we're here

[33:04] please

[33:05] tell us explore thank you

[33:22] um

[33:27] the difference between one and two is

[33:29] not really going to make much of a

[33:31] difference in terms of your

[33:32] envisioning stoners roaming the streets

[33:35] i don't think that's what's going to

[33:36] happen

[33:37] i think the important aspect to focus on

[33:40] is the revenue that it will bring into

[33:41] the town

[33:42] and a lot of people are worried about

[33:45] what new facilities we need for the

[33:46] emergency management services and the

[33:48] police

[33:49] those are all things that are going to

[33:50] bring in money yes we'd like other types

[33:52] of businesses

[33:53] sure bring those on too but right now

[33:55] the proposal is for another business

[33:57] that could bring in

[33:58] money that would help this town rise us

[34:01] up

[34:01] i don't think the concerns about people

[34:03] from flocking over the borders are

[34:05] really valid if you

[34:06] read the marijuana website you have to

[34:09] present an id

[34:10] you can't just wander into a pot shop

[34:12] and brown bag a bottle of whiskey like

[34:14] you do at a liquor store and then just

[34:16] go on the street smoking pot that's not

[34:18] what's gonna happen

[34:19] i don't smoke it i personally don't care

[34:21] but i certainly want money for this town

[34:23] and i think as other people do too

[34:25] you have to put your personal feelings

[34:27] aside about what it

[34:29] basically represents to you and picture

[34:31] what it's for what it's going to bring

[34:33] to the town

[34:34] so it's not it's not going to be a

[34:36] dangerous thing i have a child too it's

[34:37] not going to be some crazy thing that we

[34:39] have to worry about because

[34:40] 10 years 20 years down the road we'll

[34:42] realize it was a good thing after all

[34:44] so i'm just trying to get everybody to

[34:46] see the bigger picture

[34:48] don't worry about people flocking from

[34:49] out of state kingsborough does it just

[34:51] fine i lived in kingsborough before here

[34:52] that shop is beautiful i've never gone

[34:54] in it

[34:55] but i don't see traffic i don't see

[34:57] problems i do see money for downtown

[34:59] and i'd like some of that for us thank

[35:01] you

[35:03] next

[35:08] name and street mark lost 53 seattle

[35:14] street

[35:16] make a motion to amend the petition as

[35:18] follows

[35:20] the maximum number of marijuana

[35:22] establishments

[35:23] in the town of pepper shall be limited

[35:25] as follows

[35:28] the number of marijuana retailers shall

[35:30] not achieve one

[35:33] and section six six five

[35:36] zero provides the third sentence

[35:39] to read as follows with pollution thrown

[35:42] by strikethrough

[35:44] while the special granting authority is

[35:46] authorized to approve special permits

[35:48] for marijuana resellers

[35:50] and amount up to but not exceeding

[35:54] one the zoning bylaws shall not be

[35:57] construed to obligate

[35:59] spga to approve any particular

[36:02] application

[36:03] for a special permit just because the

[36:06] national number

[36:07] of special permits has not been approved

[36:24] oh

[36:38] so

[36:43] okay we have a motion uh to amend

[36:46] the main motion uh

[36:50] as it's being

[37:06] i see a hand all right discussion on

[37:09] just this amendment before we get back

[37:12] to the main motion

[37:15] uh yeah

[37:20] i just i wanted to

[37:26] that the standard was arbitrary um

[37:30] and this amendment no longer makes it

[37:33] arbitrary

[37:34] and it also excuse me

[37:38] uh does not make a major change

[37:41] to the existing current conditions um

[37:44] in this odd circumstance

[37:51] town meeting where everybody has a

[37:53] chance to have a site

[38:30] oh yeah i think you should stay

[38:34] uh clinton caller 43 business street i

[38:37] believe this verse is unnecessary

[38:39] if the citizens choose to keep the

[38:41] number of

[38:42] marijuana establishments to one

[38:58] i'll

[39:12] the motion to amend uh start at one

[39:16] that's what we've got

[39:17] now um let's when the establishment

[39:20] comes in

[39:21] get set up we'll see how it works out

[39:24] and if it works out well

[39:25] we can always go back and raise it

[39:39] did i see somebody else that wanted to

[39:41] speak to this

[39:46] i just wanted to address the comment of

[39:48] a novo

[39:50] um in the

[39:53] original um petitioning

[39:57] as being the same as for one dispute

[40:00] that's not

[40:01] true because no vote on that

[40:05] to the extent that we added more looking

[40:07] licenses

[40:08] we would

[40:22] yep

[40:27] oh yeah yeah just don't leave that area

[40:30] yeah

[40:33] hi 18 prospect street

[40:37] former member of the master planning

[40:38] committee um

[40:40] i i request that you vote no

[40:44] on this um this amended motion

[40:48] um we have um

[40:51] the reason that the planning board

[40:54] um and the um finance committee and this

[40:56] reform

[40:57] approve having two is because

[41:01] if we stay tied to the percentage of

[41:04] liquor licenses

[41:06] we could have an unlimited amount of

[41:09] marijuana businesses coming to town

[41:13] and want to get a profit for them so we

[41:16] want to limit it to true

[41:18] and i would say don't uh vote

[41:21] for this amended motion limiting it to

[41:23] one because

[41:25] um again these two businesses are going

[41:27] to contribute to our

[41:29] local economy um there's a very

[41:32] generous percentage of the gross

[41:35] proceeds for both of these businesses

[41:37] that will cover

[41:39] any um aspect of public safety

[41:44] traffic anything like that that's what

[41:48] is supposed to be useful so um

[41:51] i urge you to vote now in the amended

[41:53] motion get back to the original motion

[41:56] and vote yes or no please thank you

[42:10] good morning my name is chris esimone

[42:13] five wheeler

[42:24] and i'm not opposed to the use of

[42:25] marijuana in fact they voted for the

[42:28] legalization of marijuana in the state

[42:30] of massachusetts

[42:32] but i strongly believe that one is

[42:34] enough

[42:35] if we have people in this town who need

[42:37] it for medicinal purposes

[42:39] certainly one is enough and certainly

[42:41] one is enough for local users

[42:45] look we're a very rural community

[42:49] state with a major city within 10 miles

[42:53] any additional revenue we may

[42:57] through realize stores is going to go

[42:59] for additional traffic control do you

[43:01] know what the traffic will be like

[43:03] for people pouring in from manchester

[43:05] and groton and

[43:06] other towns around us we're gonna need

[43:08] more policemen

[43:10] the roadways are going to take a beating

[43:13] we're not going to

[43:14] make money on this so please vote for

[43:17] the amendment

[43:18] and against the main motion thank you

[43:38] on street

[43:52] dispensary and i don't think the finance

[43:56] committee

[43:56] has actually done a thorough job in

[43:59] proving to the council

[44:00] that that it is going to bring more of

[44:03] you

[44:04] i believe it's going to actually create

[44:07] more expensive

[44:32] okay margarita

[44:38] okay so i don't

[44:41] have a history or great knowledge of

[44:44] really good business for

[44:46] non-prescription now

[44:47] but my question is either one whether

[44:50] it's

[44:51] the amendment or the original

[44:54] what exactly happens at a

[44:58] recreational place recreational

[45:01] marijuana use

[45:03] establishment what is that for

[45:07] is it to just get your marijuana

[45:10] legal legally prescription or not

[45:15] or is it a place because

[45:27] i can honestly tell you i don't know

[45:44] you can buy

[45:57] big countryside road

[46:13] back in uh 2018 uh we always envisioned

[46:17] the calculation

[46:18] and we had a cylinder wrongfully assumed

[46:21] that the calculation would result in an

[46:23] accounting of two

[46:25] establishments being authorized whether

[46:28] it's one or two the planning board will

[46:30] still have to

[46:32] issue a special permit and other things

[46:34] would have to

[46:35] take place after that but i would

[46:37] recommend that

[46:40] this amendment

[46:46] thank you

[47:08] uh

[47:23] new um and we should move the question

[47:26] and let's get voted

[47:50] okay

[48:05] the amendment which would uh

[48:08] as it's been presented and as it uh

[48:11] has been explained and debated uh raise

[48:15] your

[48:16] green power now

[48:26] scott in some confusion people are

[48:28] confused as to what we're voting on

[48:30] right now

[48:46] is

[48:56] maximum number of marijuana

[49:00] establishments

[49:03] the maximum number of marijuana

[49:05] retailers shall be limited to one

[49:08] section section six six five zero

[49:12] third sentence amended as follows but

[49:16] not to exceed wrong

[49:22] okay the main motion which we're not

[49:25] voting on

[49:26] uh address two this one is limiting it

[49:29] to

[49:29] one so i hope that can like explain this

[49:32] exactly

[49:33] not to exceed one right

[50:08] at the moment

[50:24] yes

[53:04] okay are all opposed please pull out

[53:08] your package

[53:26] okay

[54:08] so

[56:14] uh

[56:42] so

[57:00] all right sorry for the delay um the

[57:02] emotion

[57:03] goes as far the emotions

[57:08] 108 no the motion does not carry back to

[57:12] the main

[57:12] question are there any more comments or

[57:15] questions on the main motion

[57:24] here

[57:29] during the break i was asked a question

[57:31] about um

[57:32] the difference between one and two and

[57:34] how it came about

[57:36] well the original bylaw was being

[57:38] written by the planning board

[57:41] the number of what could be authorized

[57:45] with the license in the count of

[57:46] pepperoni was eight

[57:49] so if you do the b uh you take 20

[57:52] percent of eight

[57:53] gives you two uh after the uh was passed

[57:57] when we

[57:58] got more into the details uh it was

[58:01] determined uh that it was a number of

[58:04] liquor licenses that were issued by the

[58:06] county couple which was three

[58:08] which would then limit it to to one so

[58:12] it all depends on how uh you know when

[58:14] the cleaning board was originally

[58:15] looking at this

[58:16] we're always envisioned that the

[58:17] calculation would be true

[58:19] this amendment is

[58:35] a further process will still have to go

[58:37] take place

[58:38] uh all of the restrictions or all of the

[58:41] uh requirements

[58:42] of uh will have to be

[58:46] put in place traffic studies will have

[58:48] to be done uh

[58:50] parking lots will have to be reviewed

[58:52] there's still a lot of work to do and

[58:54] there's no guarantee that the final

[58:55] couple would have two

[58:57] that will be defiled by a special permit

[59:00] which would be issued by the planning

[59:01] board

[59:02] again the whole

[59:10] establishments issued was eight

[59:12] multiplied by the percentage of

[59:14] twenty percent which would give you two

[59:16] and that's that's

[59:31] comments or questions now

[59:53] i got somebody right here

[1:00:11] uh now

[1:00:25] while we're doing this

[1:00:37] don't use recreational marijuana

[1:00:40] establishments in sub-section

[1:00:43] 6640.5

[1:00:46] the guys clause

[1:00:50] 3ds with deletions shown by

[1:00:52] strikethrough and additions from the

[1:00:54] underlying

[1:01:11] mgl section 138 subsection 15

[1:01:15] for retail sale in alcohol not to be

[1:01:18] drunk on the premises in the tiny people

[1:01:21] save 20 rounded up to the next whole

[1:01:24] number

[1:01:25] replace that with the number of

[1:01:27] marijuana retailers shall not

[1:01:29] exceed two

[1:01:33] in section 66 30 56

[1:01:43] authority is authorized to approve

[1:01:51] special

[1:01:52] permit preventing authority is

[1:01:54] authorized to approve special permits

[1:01:55] for marijuana retailers in an amount up

[1:01:57] to but not exceeding

[1:01:59] 20 of the number of licenses issued

[1:02:01] within the town

[1:02:02] pursuant to mgl section 138

[1:02:18] is

[1:02:28] just because the maximum number of

[1:02:30] special permits

[1:02:31] has not yet been issued

[1:03:14] mr

[1:03:42] please

[1:03:52] this requires two-thirds

[1:03:56] vote majority for passages

[1:05:49] this

[1:06:09] what's up

[1:06:44] so

[1:07:54] right

[1:08:07] all the right is as follows

[1:08:11] 112 in favor 62 against

[1:08:15] again as i stated earlier this requires

[1:08:18] a two-thirds vote

[1:08:19] uh and we did not out instead of

[1:08:22] the 66

[1:08:25] uh percent we get 55 so the motion does

[1:08:28] not carry the main motion

[1:08:30] so uh a motion to adjourn

[1:08:35] uh no seconded

[1:08:38] all those in favor aye thank you so much

[1:08:40] for your patience

[1:08:41] and understanding and hopefully we don't

[1:08:45] do it this way in the spring

[1:08:48] thank you

[1:08:53] [Music]

[1:09:15] you

Pepperell Special Town Meeting - 3/13/21

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