Boulder accidentally discloses secret marijuana grow sites - The Denver Post
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I already know where most of the grows are along Arapahoe,.... hell I've been into half of them.
Some are pretty obvious, others are pretty hard to pick out. If you know what to look for tho they start to stand out.
Still tho it's a serious security risk for the growers that information posted to the public!
Sooner or later, all permitting is going to have to be subject to the normal compatibility analysis process, and that means making these commercial grow sites public. Because commercial growing on residential property is increasingly common and because residential areas generate more incompatibilities and complaints, this issue could pit neighbor against neighbor. Make it public and let homeowners make their own rules through their HOAs. I don't much care what goes on in industrial parks, but MMCs growing in neighborhoods is a thorny issue.
commercial grows aren't allowed in residential areas in Boulder and buffers are built in for schools and daycares via zoning. This is completely covered by zoning in BoCo, which has written it's own set of regs for the industry.
This information might have been fine to release in all due time, with notice, and through proper channels. People are still getting security together and trying to work within the guidelines.
The "slip" nature of it is what makes it especially bad. Not to mention what a bad mark on security this is, especially for Boulder. If one of these places gets hit, whoever released that map is going to be subject to the same sort of scrutiny Palin is getting for the cross-hair target map with Giffords name on it.