Pot Businesses In Tinley Park? Village Seeks Residents' Input

TINLEY PARK, IL — Village officials are seeking Tinley Park residents' input on whether or not cannabis dispensaries and other related businesses should be allowed to open within village limits. A short survey has been published online seeking to find the opinions of the public on the issue.

Recreational marijuana will be legal in Illinois on Jan. 1, 2020 and after, but individual municipalities can have a say on whether or not to allow recreational marijuana businesses and where to allow them. Some residents shared their thoughts on the issue during a village committee of the whole meeting on Nov. 12.

The village aired the meeting on YouTube and it can be watched below. In it, specific areas in the village were discussed as potential sites for a dispensary.

Those who take the online survey will be asked for their input on these two questions:

• To what extent do you support or oppose the following types of cannabis establishments in Tinley Park?, with options including retail recreational dispensaries, indoor cultivation center, manufacturing facilities for extraction/infusion and cannabis café/smoke lounge with on-site consumption
• What comments, concerns or suggestions do you have for the Village Board? Responses will be shared with the Village Board.

Take the survey here. It will be open until Nov. 24.

Orland Park, Mokena and New Lenox are among the nearby communities that have already banned recreational marijuana sales. Oak Forest has already allowed it.

Tinley Park is likely to vote on the issue soon.