A commercial medical marijuana cultivation facility in a Hesperus neighborhood has been granted a land-use permit by the La Plata County commissioners.
Hesperus Mountain Healers plans to operate daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and have four employees, county planner Carolynn Pakeltis said.
It will not be open for customers. Instead, it will supply a medical marijuana store in Aspen.
Mountain Healers originally received a temporary land-use permit in June 2011. At the time, few counties had an established land-use process for medical marijuana growing operations, said Naomi Riess, a land-use consultant hired by the owner, Tremaine Ebeid.
The temporary land-use permits expired last summer, and any businesses that had received one were required to apply for a regular permit, Pakeltis said.
Ebeid still has to get a local license from the county, but they are not issued until the business has received a permit, she said.
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