Ron Strider
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The same area of north Boulder that one year ago was the site of some neighborhood frustration over marijuana odor is now host to a near repeat of that drama.
A cultivation facility that, according to state records, is licensed to local pot shop Boulder Botanics was fined $2,000 for a "failure to remedy odor violations."
This cultivation center is located in the same industrial building, at 4727 Broadway, where the Dandelion Grow was fined last fall.
The Dandelion Grow was emitting scent that neighbors described as "constant and very pungent" and "like a really stinky skunk smell."
The building that houses both the Dandelion Grow and the Boulder Botanics grow operation, registered as Crossroads Wellness LLC, is aging and has poor air control, officials said last year amid a wave of citizen complaints that prompted a total of $14,000 in fines for the Dandelion. That's still more than any other single fine the city has administered since recreational marijuana became legal in Colorado Jan. 1, 2014.
But when the Dandelion – owned by the same group representing Native Roots Dispensary, Colorado's largest pot chain – incurred that hefty fine, it was largely because of what the city described as a failure to come into compliance, despite multiple attempts by enforcement officers to encourage the grow to resolve the odor leaking.
Boulder Botanics does not have the same history with the city, and paid off its fine quickly, according to records.
The issue of pot odor persists, however, many neighbors have said.
Heidi Davis, who is an organizer of these neighbors, said, "the smell is now flooding the neighborhood again."
"It's just a really skunky, sour odor that goes all over the neighborhood."
It's unclear, what, if anything, Boulder Botanics has done or will do to mitigate the apparent concern.
On the phone Friday, a woman who identified herself as the manager of Boulder Botanics' dispensary, which is located on 30th Street, said she did not know where the dispensary's grow operation is based.
Asked whether the business is in touch with the city about the matter of marijuana odor leaking into the neighborhood, the woman on the phone said she had to go assist customers, and that she was not interested in following up with the Camera on the topic of odor.
Boulder's marijuana regulations state that no odor should be detectable from outside of a pot business. The city law that requires businesses to fully contain odor is, like many of Boulder's marijuana regulations, tougher than Boulder County's law on the matter. The county requires only that the scent can't go beyond a business' property line.
The city rarely issues violations related to this law. The recent fine at Boulder Botanics' grow was the first odor violation in the city since last year's Dandelion Grow episode.
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Full Article: Marijuana odor from cultivation center continues to seep into north Boulder - Boulder Daily Camera
Author: Alex Burness
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A cultivation facility that, according to state records, is licensed to local pot shop Boulder Botanics was fined $2,000 for a "failure to remedy odor violations."
This cultivation center is located in the same industrial building, at 4727 Broadway, where the Dandelion Grow was fined last fall.
The Dandelion Grow was emitting scent that neighbors described as "constant and very pungent" and "like a really stinky skunk smell."
The building that houses both the Dandelion Grow and the Boulder Botanics grow operation, registered as Crossroads Wellness LLC, is aging and has poor air control, officials said last year amid a wave of citizen complaints that prompted a total of $14,000 in fines for the Dandelion. That's still more than any other single fine the city has administered since recreational marijuana became legal in Colorado Jan. 1, 2014.
But when the Dandelion – owned by the same group representing Native Roots Dispensary, Colorado's largest pot chain – incurred that hefty fine, it was largely because of what the city described as a failure to come into compliance, despite multiple attempts by enforcement officers to encourage the grow to resolve the odor leaking.
Boulder Botanics does not have the same history with the city, and paid off its fine quickly, according to records.
The issue of pot odor persists, however, many neighbors have said.
Heidi Davis, who is an organizer of these neighbors, said, "the smell is now flooding the neighborhood again."
"It's just a really skunky, sour odor that goes all over the neighborhood."
It's unclear, what, if anything, Boulder Botanics has done or will do to mitigate the apparent concern.
On the phone Friday, a woman who identified herself as the manager of Boulder Botanics' dispensary, which is located on 30th Street, said she did not know where the dispensary's grow operation is based.
Asked whether the business is in touch with the city about the matter of marijuana odor leaking into the neighborhood, the woman on the phone said she had to go assist customers, and that she was not interested in following up with the Camera on the topic of odor.
Boulder's marijuana regulations state that no odor should be detectable from outside of a pot business. The city law that requires businesses to fully contain odor is, like many of Boulder's marijuana regulations, tougher than Boulder County's law on the matter. The county requires only that the scent can't go beyond a business' property line.
The city rarely issues violations related to this law. The recent fine at Boulder Botanics' grow was the first odor violation in the city since last year's Dandelion Grow episode.
News Moderator: Ron Strider 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Marijuana odor from cultivation center continues to seep into north Boulder - Boulder Daily Camera
Author: Alex Burness
Contact: How to contact us — The Denver Post
Photo Credit: Associated Press
Website: The Denver Post – Colorado breaking news, sports, business, weather, entertainment.
