The Kenton County Planning Commission recommended a zoning change for a medical cannabis cultivation facility off Dixie Highway in Erlanger this week, sending final zoning approval to the city.
The vote to recommend came Tuesday night during a special meeting of the planning commission, which had been rescheduled due to the typical meeting time’s proximity to Independence Day.
The property in question spans about 1.26 acres and is reachable off Dixie Highway via a private access road called Burley Drive just south of the railroad; the building itself is behind a Speedway.
The property is owned by Jerome Henke, founder and president of Henke Industrial. The building is still listed as Henke Industrial’s rigging and dispatch center on the company’s website, although documents presented on Tuesday indicate this is no longer its primary use…