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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
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Pot dispensaries seek city location By PAIGE LESKIN
daily senior staffer @paigeleskin
More than 20 entities have submitted applications to open a marijuana dispensary in Evanston, the city manager said Monday. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said Evanston itself does not accept the applications or select the dispensary. However, the city has provided letters of lease approval to anyone who asked to include the proposed Evanston location, 1800 Maple Ave., on its application to the state, a move aldermen approved at City Council on Aug. 11. “We basically took all comers, and we’ll see what happens,” he said. As of Monday, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, the body in charge of reviewing and selecting applicants for marijuana dispensaries and cultivation centers, had stopped accepting applications. The department started taking applications Sept. 8. Under Gov. Pat Quinn’s “Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot There’s going Program Act,” which became to be one effective Jan. 1 , me d i c a l somewhere marijuana disin the area, pensaries and so why not cultivation centers can Evanston? be established Wally in Illinois for Bobkiewicz, the purpose City manager of giving out medical marijuana to qualifying patients. The law includes limitations on the specific locations of the centers. Only 60 centers are allowed throughout the entire state and a certain amount are designated per geographical area.
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Through this breakdown, only one dispensary is allowed within the boundaries of Evanston and Niles. However, Bobkiewicz said he thinks the Evanston site is more attractive than the Niles site because of its central location near parking and transit. “There’s going to be one somewhere in the area, so why not Evanston?” he said. “I think we’re feeling pretty confident that the location that is selected in (Evanston) will likely be that location, but we will not know until the state of Illinois makes that decision.” The state law also requires that dispensaries be located more than 1,000 feet from certain properties, including schools and child care facilities. With these statutes, along with Evanston’s zoning restrictions, the empty commercial space located at the Maple Avenue parking garage was one of the three spaces available where Evanston could place a dispensary. If the dispensary were to come to Evanston, the city plans to impose its own tax, Bobkiewicz said. He cited the city’s status as a “Home Rule community,” which allows goods sold at the location to be subject to a tax determined by Evanston officials. Staff estimated in a memo to City Council on Aug. 5 that a 4 percent tax, which is around what cities nationwide have used, could bring in between $28,800 and $216,000 per year. Evanston does not plan to impose further regulations on the dispensary if it were to come to the city, as the current state statutes are restrictive enough, Bobkiewicz said. If anything, limitations in Illinois have been stricter than other states with medical marijuana centers, he added. pl@u.northwestern.edu
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EVERYBODY DANCE NOW Kelsey Adams, one of the Dance Marathon 2014 emcees, pumps up tired dancers. This year, the DM executive board has vowed to make the event more inclusive.
DM to increase inclusivity By alice yin
the daily northwestern @alice_yin
Dance Marathon is working to reach more multicultural and socioeconomic groups on campus
this year after complaints surfaced last spring alleging the event was not inclusive enough. To make the event more inclusive, DM plans to extend the student fundraising period and increase funding for its registration fee scholarships, said DM spokesman
Ross Gordon. “We are making Dance Marathon a more inclusive experience, one that represents the entire Northwestern student body,” the Medill senior said. “It’s a work in progress.” » See dm inclusion, page 10
City OKs Harley Clarke talks YWCA takes part in
fundraising challenge
By stephanie kelly
the daily northwestern @StephanieKellyM
By marissa mizroch City Council moved to go forward Monday with the negotiations for the lease and sale of the Harley Clarke Mansion to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The mansion, located at 2603 Sheridan Road, was previously occupied by the Evanston Art Center. IDNR said it would use the lakefront location to educate residents and visitors about the Illinois coast, Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes. Many residents and aldermen expressed concern over who would have ownership if IDNR were to no longer occupy the mansion. Ald. » See council, page 10
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NEW SPACE Evanston Art Center executive director Norah Diedrich spoke in front of City Council on Monday. Diedrich asked council for a $500,000 loan to close on the building where the center plans to move.
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The YWCA Evanston/North Shore is participating in the Allstate Foundation’s Purple Purse Challenge to raise awareness about domestic violence and raise funds for the services they provide to more than 800 women each year. The North Shore branch of the YWCA was chosen along with 140 other charities to participate in the challenge, which runs from Sept. 2 to Oct. 3. Each charity competes to win $100,000, with Allstate providing matching incentives for each monetary goal reached. “The Purple Purse Challenge is just one part of our program,” said Patricia
Garza, director of strategic philanthropy for Allstate. “We’ve been involved in funding domestic violence services for nearly a decade. We do that through three approaches: funding direct services to help support women, second one is to raise awareness of the issue and the third is to expand knowledge in the field through leadership initiatives.” The YWCA has been taking pictures of people posing with a purple purse to raise awareness about the challenge, as well as participating with local Evanston businesses to raise money. “It has two purposes, this campaign, to raise awareness and raise money,” communications director Julie McBratney said. » See Domestic, page 10
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