CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A Lake County Board committee has advanced an ordinance to the full board that would allow recreational marijuana sales in unincorporated areas.
Only three people weighed in before the committee vote; two residents who opposed the measure, and one from a director at a cannabis-based organization in favor.
Cheryl Van Duyse, of Antioch, doesn’t like the idea.
"My main objection is with dispensaries. Like many others, I am concerned with protecting places where children live and people recreate...the minimum distance from a residence should remain, what is to me an alarmingly small 250-feet - 250-feet is roughly a few doors down the block from where a child might live," she said.
Pamela Althoff, of the Cannabis Business Association, provided written comments read into the record.
"I can assure that after nearly 16 months of operation at 110 dispensary-licensed locations throughout the State of Illinois, cannabis business owners make good neighbors and excellent professional additions to communities,” she wrote.
There was just one no vote from board member Linda Peterson. She said there are enough dispensaries in the county.
The full county board votes on recreational marijuana in unincorporated areas next week.
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