A previous settlement between Boulder County and the landlord of an improperly operating medical cannabis grower is restricting another cannabis company’s desire to expand, a lawsuit filed this week Boulder County District Court alleges.
Wild Horse Enterprises LLC is suing the Boulder County Board of Commissioners and the county’s community planning and permitting department, claiming officials are misinterpreting a 2016 settlement with Emerald Investments Two Ltd., or EIT, the owner of the Broadway property on which Wild Horse runs a cannabis cultivation business.
In the summer of 2012 the county initiated a zoning enforcement action against EIT related to unlawful cultivation of medical cannabis at the parcel, including building without a permit. The landlord and the county reached a settlement in 2016 that restricts, with certain exceptions, the types of cannabis businesses that are allowed to operate on portions of EIT’s Broadway property.
Later that year, after the medical cannabis growers were evicted, Wild Horse began the process of getting the necessary permits and licenses to open a retail cannabis business on property leased from EIT.
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