“Other places had asked us to come there, but Sand Springs felt like a good place, and we had a partnership with the high school there,” he said.
He said about 80% of the Tulsa Tech campus’ students are high school students from Sand Springs, Tulsa, Berryhill, Glenpool and even Broken Arrow.
“Most of our campuses are a mix. In Sand Springs, because of the nature of the programs that are there and because we actually grew out of the high school there,” the student body trends younger, said Franklin, who previously was the principal at Charles Page High School.
The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, which oversees cannabis operations in the state, mandates that marijuana dispensaries must be 1,000 feet or more from a school, but the authority has no such mandates regarding distances between schools and growing or processing facilities.
Further, under OMMA regulations, technology centers such as Tulsa Tech are not classified as schools.
The City Council recently enacted Ordinance 1377 to regulate spacing of medical marijuana facilities to other like facilities and to schools, but the Planning Commission noted that Farley’s application was filed before the ordinance was enacted.
Even so, commissioners found, a building on the western end of the property — where Farley aims to build his facility — likely would be farther than 1,000 feet from the next closest grow facility.
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