Zoning won’t be changed to accommodate a proposed medical marijuana cultivation site at South Broadway and East Perry Street, effectively killing plans by Geoff Korff to locate a growing facility in the city.
The president of Quaker City Castings said now he’ll be looking at other cities that have already rezoned areas to welcome medical marijuana businesses, noting there are plenty of sites to consider, including in Akron. When asked why not just go out of town in a township with no zoning, he commented “I want to go somewhere that I’m wanted,” indicating a desire to locate in a municipality that has planned for these types of businesses.
Korff formed a company called Galenas LLC to seek a Level 2 license for dedication of 3,000 square feet of space for medical marijuana cultivation. The plan was to locate at 884 S. Broadway Ave., a parcel adjacent to Quaker City Castings large enough to allow for expansion of up to 9,000 square feet of cultivation space if the state expanded the program. He explained that he would serve as president and already had a director of operations, a director of cultivation and a board of advisors in place, along with plans for how the company would operate, right down to the security. Plans had been to keep the grow space on the second floor where it could not be seen, with a carbon filtration system to keep odors from escaping the brick structure and a sallyport system for trucks to enter and exit the locked building.
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