Belleville has received another proposal for a marijuana facility in the Avaya building on Sidney Street.
Once again a company is applying for a medical marijuana processing facility at 250 Sidney Street, the former Nortel building.
City council rejected an earlier proposal at that site last year.
The idea is that cannabis would be delivered to the facility and then processed into various products.
Some committee members were concerned about the arrangements and the fact that the building owners were present but not the proponents of the project.
Committee chair Paul Carr tells Quinte News members want to hear from the proponents about a number of issues.
Councillor Pat Culhane said it was very important to her to have the “tenants” at the committee for questioning.
Consultant Virginia Maclean, speaking for the owners of the building, indicated there would be restricted access with barbed wire fencing, and visual and recording detection systems as required by the federal government.
Two area residents Peter O’Connell and Tony Rivers both expressed concerns.
Rivers said “Barbed wire. I don’t want to drive by Joyceville or Penetanguishene,” referring to two prisons in Ontario.
For O’Connell the concerns were about increased traffic, lights shining brightly in the night, and the fencing. He also mentioned “the smell of weed and crime.”
Carr said the committee wants answers before any rezoning decision is made in the spring.
