term it was working so i met with the applicant to discuss the landscape plan and during our conversation we realize that it is in fact three stories the surveyor the proposed house is rising twenty nine from the same elevation so it will be four feet higher in elevation because the house itself will be four feet higher question is the conversation was that the applicant when we met discussed the landscaping we reviewed the surveyors plan and determined that the percentage of the basement that was exposed lead to it being considered  floor so that's so the current structure is two stories and by adding the additional it actually brings it to three stories change they can reduce it more but you can increase of more than a foot so this might be at that site right right and even they're supposed to elevations are showing some retaining walls that are being added if you will you can see at the front elevation right here for example the grade is right here whereas over here it's a pyre you can see in the and of course they're from the board of health so of course that they are completely uprooted up absolutely absolutely not not legal quite yet but there you go but thank you for your i have to say this isn't exactly a typical board of health meeting where a lot lonel thank you very much for finding time to me today unfortunately i am bringing you a little bit of work and i'm fortunate even more so i bring you a little bit of a truncated schedule but it's time to be addressing the issue of marijuana licensing i met with the selectmen last night and with representative george bowles office to go about the licensing of the establishment as far as what delmon and cannot do and the time frame and we're talking about the time i was not going to go through all aspects of licensure because that's not really underneath your purview the i'm certainly happy to answer any questions with it but when i come to you tonight with is to try to pull all the pieces together and two quick handouts for you him the first one here is a memorandum really well written by george all that kind of brings you up to speed of what belmont's options are i don't expect you to read it here right now but i'll just kind of educat a little bit what i will ask you to keep in front of you is this list of dates and these a dates from the stage as far as how things are progressing and so this is the piece that i think we need to go over with i don't know if i have that it was that  through quickly the dates i have in front of you feel understand where your piece in the puzzle is here so as of yesterday the final draft was put up to a vote from the cannabis control commission so they finished their work and they sent it out to basically be typed up bound and because the state does things in an expedient way it's going to take eleven days to reach the secretary of state of massachusetts the secretary of state is then going to hold a public hearing on the fifth of february at the state house in all likelihood on the twenty third of march whatever regulations he has in his hand is going to become law april first is the first time that anyone's going to be able to submit an application to open up a retail establishment the fifteenth speaks of crime area with patients and this is where those medical establishments commit because existing medical establishment and either convert or include adult use as well and they get priority currently there are eighteen in the state of massachusetts who have a be able to do that as of a board they will be they can send in their application a first with everybody else their applications get looked at first and get priority so you who doesn't believe don't own a medical establishment and you put in for a license you would be a pile b where if i owned a medical establishment year and six one the doors open and this is when sales can happen as you can see these dates are coming up belmont voted in favor of question for which means that belmont must come up with regulations and zoning in order to allow us to have now the re that they're putting this is that there's a couple of options and again mr hall spells this out well in the paperwork the only way that belmont can opt out to forbid the opening of an adult use establishment is to bring the vote back to the citizens to ask if they want to ban it and that does not go to town meeting the select want to get this all done before the applications are starting to be accepted and someone can walk in april first to the state and say i want to put a place on concord ave in belmont and we don't have everything in place then they're allowed to do what they want to do as long as their applications been accepted but this is the conference really so the selectmen are going to be remeeting on january eighth to come up with their decision of whether or not they're bringing the votes of the town i have absolutely no idea which way they're going it simply was just presented to them last night the second option of course is to me is to follow what the vote was of the people and allow for a staff that as far as the number goes is an interesting formula and jeffrey i'm sure you've seen is that if you need to have a minimum of twenty percent of the number of retail liquor establishment not restaurants carry out li have six there by twenty percent we have we are allowed to have just one you obviously can't go to zero so we can simply say we're just going to have one and that meets the requirements of the state but it does mean we have to have one the book in and again this all needs to be in place you know and you know unless we want to gamble to buy it prefers not my department is going to take on the responsibility of the regulations as far as inspections you know if we are allowed to license them in the sense of being able to work with ours which you guys work with as well as far as you force from and as far as the  place before april first of where you want us and again we can restrict it to want here's the extra little tidbit miss where jeff is going to get a little homework to is actually four different types of businesses that are tied into this that can potentially be opened in a town and license and that is the cultivation basically a place to grow which you then have a processing plant you have a testing facility facility you cannot own a retail so that's going to be state the other three are very attractive to a lot of towns because they represent the norm is amount of money and for those of you the don't know this is big money and it's yash and that's something you're going to have to take into account because if you don't know these establishment cannot take checks they cannot take credit cards they kind of take debit cards because ben i want to still the federal and so banks will not touch these establishment and colorado and nevada and california pay their employees in cash they pay their bills and care i mean someone's going to go over the belmont lite with two three thousand bucks in cash and be their monthly bill but that it know and the same type of thing marijuana is expensive i mean you're talking three to four hundred dollars an ounce now it is off the door and people can be walk around with cash when so these are all the different things that i get i'm so not trying to teach you your job but these are the types of parameters you're going to need to think oh one other piece of this is that every town is allowed to vote to increase the sales tax by three percent that stays in the town now the uniqueness of that is that does not happen automatically the town must say we want this three percent and to vote on it or make it a regulation and then we can do it the three percent however must be earmarked for anti drug education and action so for instance the police could use it if they feel they need an extra officer we can use it for will be a way to education we can use it for surveys in the town but it does not just go into the general populace you do not get the three percent from the state if you opt out so you must exist in your staff and the reason i bring this up to you folks is that when you think about where putting this you know some people are going to need jerk and say well we're going to stick this five in the create a state for something we don't want this where anything is but the reality is if we're going to have one of these kids to the towns then that for this thing to be successful three percent of a million dollars is a lot of drug anti drug and they don't have s can't see any of the other facilities about my because i don't think we have the open space you know all these are fairly large places i mean you know these growing centers are huge they're all indoors they won't do it well first because they get a seven seasons indoors they get two seasons out i regulation we did that for the medical programs to let you know when you're already a couple steps and in the game you know as i said unfortunately i'm bringing you a fair bit of work but it's you know it's very truncated and of course you know town meeting needs to deal with it which is going to be not at the have a town meeting on this we call a town meeting before that correct and what is being spoken we will not know until after the after the third really of the twenty third of march and the hope is is that the spirit of the town is going to be  exact so the point is that we will see it on the twenty ninth of december when the draft is is handed over to the secretary of state alysia version of what they're going to do you know obviously not a final very on because you can read and so it will have more of a feel so at the moment we we have a lot more questions than answers and mr hall is of the opinion that that little gap that we have will probably not be an issue because he doesn't see belmont as being a real targeted community for the he and i disagree with that a little bit because again the cost of the product the cost of running this facility i would think towns like belmont would be a little more attractive then you know a lesser well to do community but it's a gamble i mean even with the election we're talking about to opt out if we wait until the town election which i believe is april fourth so we're missing that april first deadline by three days and there's a window they can slide in on the other hand we spent fifteen twenty thousand dollars to have a special election you know in march this is not for me thank god but these are the types of things that they're chewing on which they're going to be during t but they didn't do anything for me the sugar did you know sugar day yeah they would that's all that's all i got yeah that's all i will throw one final thing at you and jeffrey it sounds like you've been reading through this to see all know what i'm talking about and again it's in your papers  the c c c is come out with a very liberal draft here because what they're also looking to allow is casual use so for instance this can be dispensed if in fact this goes through by a massage therapist with clients at a yoga studio they're also looking at the possibility of rico was that it was setting up a casual use room off the site kind of like the cigar room for the cigar shop now of course they can't smoke because you can't smoke in public places so this would all be edible consumption or oils eccentric but the point is and this again is going to fall more on the roughs as far as licensing but you just should need to be aware so i will leave you with this you're welcome i will obviously avail myself why am i here with this one number one the board of health p obviously is deeply involved number two i was fortunate to be appointed to the mass association of health certainly happy to communicating through jeffrey or anyone and he was more than able to reach out to me with any questions comments and i'll come back whenever you want to but the good news is you have your medical marijuana tough but yes it's i think will serve you you never know how people change their mind done and things i mean there are social changes that have taken place that we would never imagine twenty five years ago that when people would if they were voting on those would vote for them what if we didn't develop more because it was a dr really for hitting guys from being summoned into the moment is the fact that this question of study versus day and vs bedroom issue as i pointed out the number of two bedroom units that s number of changes on things of the fourteen or fifteen units that were problematic and at this point they've come back and we just have to review those is sunset in june so we're in the process of looking at this seeing what if any changes need to be made on that breathe through the public hearing they will you're not going far enough or you go too far though this one the first one we get your point is great because we need to get the word out these are ones that we've been through this before the public generally tends to come and talk about what they think about you know the good or the bad kind of thing and then we begin to talk about specific issues in the pacific changes people will come up and say i don't like this but i like process question is where you say amendments reveal in the meeting on january fourth does that mean amendments which are already made to the existing works in terms of official dissemination of information but i think a lot of people are starting to be on the social media platform next door and i see a lot of things its host which is a code next door open and it  geographic based like neighborhood by neighborhood and sometimes i see people post things i haven't seen it so much about belmont but in i'm close enough to watertown that i also see that people post about like you know blah blah blah me so that could be a good way to get the general information out to different people who don't see this so there's a pretty good circulation with it yet i think it's and i think it's a pretty different crowd than the people who like mine subscribe to the penny board new local historic district on her property she felt that being placed on the list of significant buildings which is regulated by the demolition lay by law didn't go far enough she wants to ensure that the house is protected  future and so the d c has been working over the past couple of months to move that forward there following a process that's set forth by the massachusetts store commission part of that ncertain about if you really want to get serious about protecting your you put covenants in the d and and short of that you know you've been listed as a historic property but i think it's i think it's bizarre to call it a so we have thank you very much now we have a review of the minutes from which they