Updated 5/12/2021 5:52 PM
After a year on hold and around three months spent seeking public input, the Lake County Board has voted to allow adult-use marijuana businesses in the commercial and industrial zoning districts of unincorporated areas.
The Tuesday vote came down 13-7 largely along party lines. Each of the board's six Republican members voted against the plan and Diane Hewitt was the lone Democrat to join the dissenters.
The types of allowed marijuana businesses include dispensaries -- the stores where customers purchase recreational pot products -- as well as other operations such as craft growers, processing centers, infusers, cultivation centers and transporter businesses.