Among the routine agenda items is a review of a petition to rezone property at 1112 Veterans Drive from B4, a business designation, to B4 with special use.
The property between West Morton and Superior avenues is owned by Daniel Kindred of Jacksonville.
Adult-use cannabis dispensaries are not new to the state or to west-central Illinois, but most of those in the region are in Springfield, which has six, or Quincy, which has three.
Among the requirements for dispensaries is that they cannot be within 150 feet of a nursery, school or residential care facility or of a residential property.
The Cincinnati native has worked as an editor for newspapers in Florida, Ohio and Kentucky and as a former adjunct instructor of journalism at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky.