“…It’s predominantly a cash business, so when you have cash you need to have very strong security in place.” “This is a new industry so we want to make sure they have security in place and you know, go deep on what their security plans are going forward,” Toia said. He conceded that dispensaries may receive extra attention from the Zoning Board of Appeals because its a new industry and they hold a lot of cash. Sam Toia, president of the Illinois Restaurant Association and a Zoning Board of Appeals member, said retail theft occurs in every industry. State law has strict security guidelines for dispensaries, including storing “all cannabis and currency in a secure locked safe or vault and in a manner as to prevent diversion, theft or loss,” when the store is closed. The Zoning Board of Appeals, which must issue special-use permits to any new dispensary opening in Chicago, has grilled dispensary owners on their security plans in the past. “We we will possibly consider an expansion in the future if needed but for now have no plans to do so.” For now, we feel that we have great system in place with two separate adjacent spaces instead of having one larger space,” Marks said. 1 on customer flow than when we first proposed this plan last summer. He declined to answer questions about the break in. The dispensary’s owners made the decision to withdraw their expansion application prior to the burglary, MOCA owner Danny Marks said. If they had their request denied on Friday, owners would have been prevented from reapplying for a year. Withdrawing their application now allows the company to reapply in the future.

RELATED: Emporium Arcade Owners Want To Expand MoCa Dispensary, But City Board Won’t Sign Off Yet On Friday, owners withdrew their application. At the December meeting of the board, MOCA’s request was delayed by a month because the company had failed to file economic disclosure forms for every owner. sought approval from the Zoning Board of Appeals to expand its Logan Square storefront by 1,300 square feet as recreational weed sales began. Late last year, the dispensary at 2847 W. CITY HALL - Eleven days after being burglarized, Logan Square weed dispensary MOCA Modern Cannabis is suspending their plan to expand the pot shop.

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