{"id":7900,"date":"2017-12-01T19:48:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T19:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2875322&amp;preview_id=2875322"},"modified":"2017-12-01T19:48:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T19:48:22","slug":"neighbors-push-back-on-favorite-longmont-restaurant-converting-to-pot-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/neighbors-push-back-on-favorite-longmont-restaurant-converting-to-pot-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors push back on favorite Longmont restaurant converting to pot shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/neighbors-push-back-on-favorite-longmont-restaurant-converting-to-pot-shop\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Dec 1, 2017, 11:57 am \u2022 Updated: Dec 1, 2017, 2:05 pm<span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>John Fryar<\/strong>, <em> Times Call<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Boulder County commissioners voted to uphold their Land Use Department\u2019s approval of a plan to change the use of a property at 7521 Ute Highway to a marijuana shop from a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Both restaurants and retail pot sales are uses-by-right in a business zoning district, including the one in which the property at the corner of Colorado 66 and North 75th Street, west of Longmont, staff concluded.<\/p>\n<p>More than 45 people sent the county written objections to permitting a marijuana retailer from taking the place of Praha Restaurant and Bar, previously Old Prague Inn.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen people argued against the change during the commissioners\u2019 public hearing Thursday. But the elected officials cannot legally base their rulings on what kinds of businesses they like or dislike, or \u201cyour likes or dislikes,\u201d commission chairwoman Elise Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Tanya Eisele, who said her North 75th Street home is \u201cright across from the restaurant,\u201d was one of several people worried that the change in use would aggravate already dangerous traffic conditions on Colorado 66 and on North 75th.<\/p>\n<p>To read more of this story go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescall.com\/longmont-local-news\/ci_31492210\/boulder-county-oks-plan-convert-praha-restaurant-into\">TimesCall.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescall.com\/longmont-local-news\/ci_31492210\/boulder-county-oks-plan-convert-praha-restaurant-into\" rel=\"nofollow\">This story was first published on TimesCall.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>More than 45 people sent Boulder county written objections to permitting a marijuana retailer from taking the place of Praha Restaurant and Bar, previously Old Prague Inn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7416,6811,6813,77,5577,5667,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[7417,6816,6818,2655,5580,5673,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}