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Attorney for Good Life Collective seeks special-use permit for Eastridge Road dispensary; board requests documentation on setbacks, parking and operations
Summary
Harris Beach attorney Francis Gorman and operations representative AK Kaid presented a special-use permit request for Good Life Collective to operate a state‑licensed retail cannabis dispensary at 1849 Eastridge Road; the board discussed state proximity mapping, a recent town code update (Local Law No. 5 of 2026), parking, hours and security and asked the applicant to return with a full compliance package.
An attorney for Good Life Collective sought a time, place and manner special-use permit from the Irondequoit Planning Board to operate a New York State licensed adult‑use cannabis retail dispensary at 1849 Eastridge Road.
"We are a licensed operator," attorney Francis Gorman told the board, noting that the Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) had already issued a proximity determination and that the town adopted Local Law No. 5 of 2026 to align local code with state regulations. Gorman said the town’s updated code reduces certain distances to match state setbacks and that the state’s proximity map showed the site as permissible under the current rules.
Operations representative AK Kaid described security measures used at two existing locations (Elmwood Village in Buffalo and a recently opened Batavia store): 24‑hour monitored cameras, state‑compliant security personnel, and product track-and-trace systems. Kaid also said the stores engage in community giving, citing donations and sponsorships "north of $5,000" to local causes and an example where a partner store contributed roughly $500,000 to the local area.
Board members raised several issues they want addressed before the board considers approval: confirmation from the state (OCM) that the site meets setback requirements door-to-door (the town asked for clarification between property-line versus door-to-door measuring), clarification about the playground/soccer field at Ivan Green (whether it qualifies as a public youth facility under the code), a parking demonstration showing the leased space aligns with town parking standards (an architect's count of roughly 55 rear‑lot spaces was cited and the applicant said the leased storefront is about 2,800 sq ft, which the board estimated would need roughly 12 spaces), a signage package consistent with OCM rules, an exterior lighting plan, and a site plan or interior build-out notes demonstrating compliance with local code paragraphs.
Gorman and Kaid agreed to bring a compliance checklist and the OCM license/map evidence to the next meeting. "If you want any information from us, signage, any of this other stuff that you want us to bring to our next meeting, we want to we will bring it," Gorman said.
No formal action was taken on the special-use permit at the workshop; the board asked staff to list the specific documentation they want to review at the next meeting, including a line-by-line mapping to the technical code amendments now in Local Law No. 5 of 2026.
