Central coast town pauses licensing amid “application stacking” claims
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Updated: March 25, 2026
Monterey County town Pacific Grove has delayed a lottery drawing to award a dispensary license, following complaints that eight of the ten extant applications are from retailer Off The Charts.
Of the ten applicants, nine were submitted for a single location on Forest Ave. The other application is for the building next door. Soon after the October application deadline, the owner of the other address wrote to the city saying that eight of the nine applications "appear to originate from one principal applicant" using separate legal entities. It requested . . .
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