Its "Medical Marijuana Use Overlay Districts" are spread out on or near Forge Parkway, National Drive, Kenwood Circle and Constitution Boulevard. Located south and west of Interstate 495, they fall within the town’s industrial zone.
Incidentally, the industrial zone also contains an "Adult Use Overlay District" designated for adult entertainment businesses, such as strip clubs and risqué bookstores.
According to the town’s regulations, a registered dispensary, the nonprofit company where the drug can be cultivated and sold to patients who’ve received approval from a doctor to use it, could not set up shop within 200 feet of a residential zoned district, school, library, church, child-care facility, park or playground.
Read more: http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/x625969468/Zoning-regulations-for-medical-pot-shops-approved-in-Franklin#ixzz2VtnrC2XO
While the anaerobic digestion plant took the headlines last week, one of the series of zoning bylaw changes covered the medical marijuana overlay district
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2013/06/live-reporting-legislation-continued_5.html
The full set of reporting for the Town Council meeting can be found here
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2013/06/anaerobic-digestion-tabled-in-franklin.html
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