Although retail marijuana has helped revitalize parts of Denver, some neighborhoods became saturated with cannabis businesses.
to determine the number of marijuana dispensaries, grows and extraction facilities there, and how those businesses align with the city's licensing, proximity and zoning requirements.
While no businesses are being forced to close if they're already located in saturated neighborhoods, new licenses won't be issued for those areas until a certain level of dispensaries and grows close or move. As a result of the department's most recent tally, popular neighborhoods such as Baker and Five Points remain off limits for new dispensaries, as do Northeast Park Hill, Overland and Valverde; Montbello was added to the list of areas where new dispensary applications are prohibited. Montbello, Northeast Park Hill and Overland are barred from allowing any more marijuana cultivations, as are College View-South Platte and Elyria Swansea, which was on the no-more-dispensary list until this year.
According to Excise & Licenses, one dispensary license is now up for grabs in Elyria Swansea — but under local rules, the license most go to an applicant that qualifies under
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