Airing it out: Rules target Denver grows' weed smells
A beefed-up odor-control ordinance that would require marijuana grow houses to reduce the smells they emit won approval Tuesday from a Denver City Council committee.
The proposal fits into a larger council discussion about ways to limit the industry’s impact on neighborhoods that are saturated with marijuana businesses. About 1 a.m. Tuesday, the full council deadlocked 6-6 on a proposal to set location caps for pot shops and cultivation facilities. That licensing measure could be reintroduced for more discussion next Monday.
While council members have struggled to find consensus on licensing, the odor measure was advanced easily at the afternoon Safety & Well-being Committee meeting.
The city’s Department of Environmental Health says the expanded ordinance would add nearby business owners and their employees to the list of people can file formal complaints about an offending facility’s odors; currently only residents can file complaints. The city must receive five complaints...
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