Roseville Residents Want Pot Plants Pulled From Neighbor's Backyard
ROSEVILLE (CBS13) - Homeowners in a Roseville neighborhood say they can smell marijuana coming from a house and now they want the city to intervene, but a councilman is saying there's nothing the city can do about.
"I really don't have any interest in bringing the proposed (pot) ordinance back right now," Tim Herman said in a written statement. "Between the state and the feds trying to figure out what the medical marijuana law is, we should let them figure it out before we do anything.
"We believe the Placer County Air Pollution Control District has authority over the odors and we should give that body a chance to deal with the problem at this time."
Jack Wallace, president of the Coalition of Neighborhood Association, says the smell is coming from the backyard of a home growing medical marijuana plants. CBS13 did not have the specific address of the home but was told it's located in the Cresthaven neighborhood.
The nine homes within 100 feet of the residence growing pot plants suffer greatly because, in the fall when the smell is at its peak, "they can't use their backyards during that time, they can't use their swimming pools, they can't be in their backyards," homeowner association member Marge Wallace said.
Jack Wallace says he's the voice of several frustrated neighbors.
"Most of them are afraid to speak out for possible retaliation," he said.
But all of the neighbors want the City Council to pass an ordinance banning backyard medical marijuana plants, says Wallace.
"It doesn't prohibit them from growing it, it just regulates how they grow it," he said.
Residents say the issue extends beyond this neighborhood and that's why the City Council should take action.
"The confusion between the state and federal laws is all the more reason to enact a zoning ordinance," he said.
