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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Push to give Chicago City Council more control over pot zoning a ‘nonstarter’ for advocates

Marijuana products being purchased on Jan. 1, 2020 — the first day recreational marijuana was legal in Illinois. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file photo)

A City Council proposal that would give local alderpersons more sway over where cannabis businesses can open was met with resistance Wednesday from industry insiders, who complained it doesn’t give companies more options to set up shop.

Under the ordinance introduced by downtown Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd), pot companies would no longer have to earn special-use approval from the Zoning Board of Appeals, a process widely slammed as costly and time-consuming.

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