City to Ease Pot Buffer Near Schools?
Publicola has been covering the issue of where pot stores will be springing up now that Washington State has a law to make them legal. There are more than 80 stores with applications to be in Seattle. In this thread , they show a map of where stores are proposed to be. However: If you overlay Baker's map with the city's own map of the areas where pot stores are likely to be allowed— under Seattle rules pot stores cannot within 1,000 feet of schools, day cares, parks, and other public facilities— many of the applicants will be out of luck. For example: A proposed store at 7th and Union in downtown Seattle (Good Patient Network LLC); one at West Mercer and 1st Ave. N. on Lower Queen Anne (Queen Anne Liquor and Wine) ; and one at N 49th Street and Stone Way in Wallingford (Iconic Inc.) would not be allowed. Oddly, the map appears to indicate that a proposed pot store at Fourth Ave. S. and S. Lander St., adjacent to Seattle Public Schools' he...