The long-running conflict over plans to open a medical cannabis cultivation facility on Anthony Road will be returning to the battlefields this month. The Zoning Board of Adjustment will meet next week to determine whether the NAR Group's proposal meets the definition of a farm within the township's zoning ordinance. That meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on September 13 in the main gym at Voorhees High School.
If the Zoning Board of Adjustment decides the facility is a permitted use, then NAR's application will return to the Planning Board. If the Zoning Board of Adjustment decides it is not a permitted use, then NAR will have to obtain a use variance, a more rigorous process than obtaining site plan approval from the Planning Board.
NAR filed a lawsuit on September 1 in Superior Court against the Save Lebanon Township Coalition (SLTC) and township resident William Bohn, alleging that Bohn helped to form the group because NAR refused his offer to invest in the business. He then became "a fly in the ointment" to thwart NAR Group's plans, the lawsuit argues.
The lawsuit claims that "every month that NAR Group is not cultivating cannabis for sale to licensed state dispensaries, it loses millions of dollars in potential revenue." The suit says that cannabis for medical purposes sells for an average price of $4,000 a pound.
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