SAN LEANDRO — The Davis Street Wellness Center has cleared one of the last obstacles needed to operate a medical marijuana dispensary next to the Davis Street Family Resource Center, an affiliated nonprofit well known in San Leandro for helping immigrant and low-income residents.
The San Leandro Board of Zoning Adjustments, by a 5-0 vote, approved a new set of conditions that the Davis Street Wellness Center must meet before it can open its medical marijuana dispensary in a Teagarden Street building owned by the Davis Street Family Resource Center. Zoning board members Catherine Vierra Houston and Rick Solis were absent.
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The city initially outlined reasons for denying the project last month, but the zoning board approved Davis Street Wellness Center’s permit to operate a dispensary in the building. The zoning board then instructed city staff to write a new set of findings and conditions tied to the permit’s approval.
Those conditions include repaying a $500,000 federal government-backed loan given by the city to the Davis Street Family Resource Center in 2009. That money was used to buy its 44,024-square-foot headquarters building on Teagarden Street in 2010.
