Sensimilla Marijuana Retail Store Permit

At a glance

What: Resolution AR 2026-225 approves a municipal marijuana license and special land use permit for Baltazar Holdings, LLC, doing business as Sensimilla, a retail marijuana store (state license M35490) on Muldoon Road in the B-3 SL district (Lot 2A, Baltazar Subdivision; Planning Case 2026-0055; Northeast Community Council).
Outcome: approved 8-3 on August 18, 2026.
Hearing: a quasi-judicial public hearing opened August 4 and was carried over; eleven people testified that night and fifteen more on August 18. The minutes record who testified but not whether each spoke for or against.

Item 15.D, added by addendum with Information Memoranda AIM 128-2026 (from Chair Brawley) and AIM 129-2026 (from Silvers, on Phase 1 development improvements to the Muldoon Town Square Park master plan; both laid on the table).
The hearing opened late in the evening. Scout moved to extend the meeting to 11:15 p.m. (passed 11-1, McCormick opposed). Eleven people testified. At 11:15 p.m. the meeting adjourned and the item was carried to August 18.

The item was moved to the end of the evening after the other hearings (Baldwin Day motion, 11-0).
Ex parte disclosures: Brawley, Goecker, Handeland, Baldwin Day, Silvers, Park, Martinez and Scout disclosed ex parte communications and additional looking at the space.
Fifteen people testified, among them Nate Martin for the Northeast Community Council and Jamie Lopez. Jana Weltzin and Baltazar (as named in the minutes) gave remarks related to the public testimony. Planning Department staff (Appleby, Manager, and Gupta, Senior Planner) and Assembly Counsel Gates spoke after the vote.
Motion: Scout moved approval of AR 2026-225, seconded by Martinez. Passed 8-3. Aye: Martinez, Perez-Verdia, Brawley, Baldwin Day, Scout, McCormick, Park, Johnson. Nay: Handeland, Goecker, Silvers. Volland excused.
Baldwin Day's motion to extend debate by 20 minutes passed 11-0; Goecker's call for the question passed 10-1 (Martinez opposed).

Hearing completed with fifteen more witnesses; AR 2026-225 approved 8-3.

Hearing opened; eleven testified; meeting adjourned at the 11:15 p.m. limit and the item carried to August 18.