UPDATED STORY: PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDS PROJECT TO DANVILLE CITY COUNCIL: https://vermilioncountyfirst.com/2023/01/05/update-danville-planning-and-zoning-commission-recommends-new-cannabis-dispensary-plan-to-city-council/
(Above) Looking north from where Lynch Drive currently ends (Sunnyside Dispensary would be to the left from this angle), the very next parcel is owned by the Sleep Inn Hotel (to the right from this angle). The parcel after that is where Parkway Dispensary LLC out of Brookfield, IL would like to build Danville’s third cannabis dispensary (pending the groundbreaking for the 2nd one, the already approved Seven Point of Illinois at 388 Eastgate).
The chance of having a third adult use cannabis dispensary just off Lynch Road on Danville’s east side will come before the Danville Planning and Zoning Commission on Thursday (Jan 5th). There are already two approved that are near each other, as well as near the future Golden Nugget Casino. At 369 Lynch Drive you have the already operating Sunnyside Canabis Dispensary, and then approximately on the other side of Lynch Road from there you have the already approved but yet to break ground Seven Point of Illinois Dispensary at 388 Eastgate Drive.
Now, Parkway Dispensary LLC out of Brookfield, IL wants to build a dispensary two properties to the north from Sunnyside, past where Lynch Drive currently ends, at what would be 361 Lynch Drive.
Danville Community Development Administrator Logan Cronk says the Parkway and Sunnywide properties would not be contiguous.
AUDIO: Roughly about 100 – 150 feet separating the two; maybe a little bit more than that. And the parcel separating the two is currently owned by the owners of the Sleep Inn directly to the east of the current Sunnyside Dispensary. We are hoping that if this is approved that there will be other development in between the two, so they’re not butting next to each other.
Cronk says the Sleep Inn Hotel is planning to build something on their property in between where the two dispensaries would be, but it won’t be a hotel.
AUDIO: They are marketing, and attempting to building on that sight that they own. But all signs are pointing to it’s not going to be another hotel.
With or without a recommendation at Thursday’s (Jan 5th) meeting by the Planning and Zoning Commission, this proposal will come before the Danville City Council at a future meeting. But without a Planning and Zoning Commission recommendation, a ten vote supermajority from the City Council would be needed for approval. Thursday’s Planning and Zoning Commission meeting is set for 5:15 PM.
