BENNINGTON — Members of the town’s Development Review Board asked few questions, and deliberated only briefly, before approving southwestern Vermont’s first medical marijuana dispensary at its regular meeting on Tuesday.
No members of the public attended the meeting. There was a brief deliberative session before the vote, which took only a few minutes, and PhytoScience Institute LLC, was granted a change of use permit to open a medical cannabis dispensary in a small commercial center at 120 Depot St. The vacant space was the former home of a local branch of the Vermont Registry of Motor Vehicles.
PhytoScience Institute, which is based in Waterbury, will renovate the space with an eye toward opening by March 1, said real estate agent Paul Carroccio, of TPW Real Estate, who represented PhytoScience at the meeting.
