“one thing we can uh decide is uh where we want to allow cannabis businesses to locate and so um with our update to the zoning ordinance it will allow cannabis retailers to be located in all of our commercial districts um exactly the same as where tobacco and liquor are allowed to go and one thing that does is it um allows for the possibility that Cannabis retailers could be kind of spread out rather than just concentrated in one area”

“what we'll be using those Tiff dollars for is to reimburse the developer for a lot of those costs that are really unique to the site that create public benefit and make the project possible so for example raising the existing building cleaning up the property it's an 8 Acre Site that used to be gravel and sand pit so there's really no portion of this building other than what's behind us today that's even buildable so there's a lot of site preparation that has to happen that's millions of dollars and then the final project has a lot of the public space on the exterior as well as public parking on the interior affordable housing units all those things that deliver public benefit cost a lot of money and that's where the Tiff dollars will be spent”