76 Ashland Avenue Blue Violet Grow LLC West Orange Planner Report

August 19, 2025 Page 4 of 16 PB-25-04 76 Ashland Avenue – Blue Violet Grow, LLC Block 62, Lot 22.01 105 Grove Street, Suite 3, Montclair, NJ 07042 • Phone: (973) 954-2677 • www.NishuaneGroup.com a paved parking area with eight (8) striped parking spaces, including one (1) ADA-compliant space. Sixteen (16) additional parking spaces are proposed on the southern side of the building, including one (1) additional ADA-compliant space and two (2) spaces designated for compact cars. Eight (8) spaces are proposed along the eastern side (rear) property line, including one (1) ADA-compliant space. To the south of theses spaces, adjacent to and existing 2-story metal building, is proposed a striped area that will be a designated no parking fire lane. Ingress onto the site will be an existing one-way driveway located to the south of the 2-story dwelling located on the site at 80 Ashland Avenue. This driveway will extend beyond the dwelling, where there are four (4) parking spaces. Beyond the parking spaces, plans show an existing gate and fence, which will remain. This fence will extend to the north to a pedestrian gate between the fence and the southwestern corner of the building where the cannabis establishment will be located. The southern end the existing fence will meet a proposed new 6-foot-tall slatted chain-link fence, which will extend along the southern property line at the rear of the proposed row of parking stalls. The applicant indicates that ingress and egress to and from the site will also be from a two- way access off Park Avenue, across the adjoining lots 32 and 34 located to the north of the subject site. The applicant proposes to undertake both internal and external modification of the existing 3-story building to facilitate the proposed cannabis cultivation and manufacturing operation. Plans show that the proposed facility will occupy all three floors of the building. The main entry to the building will be located at the northwestern corner, where a door on the western façade will open to an internal vestibule and staircase, which will access a corridor that will extend along the northern side of the building to the eastern end. On the southern side of this corridor, immediately inside the entry, is a second corridor that will branch off the southern side of the main corridor and access men’s and women’s bathrooms and locker rooms on the eastern and

this corridor, immediately inside the entry, is a second corridor that will branch off the southern side of the main corridor and access men’s and women’s bathrooms and locker rooms on the eastern and western sides. At the end of this access corridor is proposed an office, which will provide access a utility area located on the southwestern perimeter of the 1st floor. At the eastern end of the main corridor is proposed an elevator and an adjacent enclosed staircase, both of which will access all three floors of the building, as well as the northern side yard. To the west of the elevator and stair enclosure is a room identified as a processing room. Abutting this area to the east (and south of the elevator/staircase) is a packaging room, a room identified as the vault and a receiving room, which will access a delivery room,