Lakeshore council is hearing concerns from residents about medical marijuana grow-operations.
The municipality wants Canadian health officials to wait for public information sessions before granting approval.
But these grow-ops have already been built.
"Some people could have come up and told us this is what they're going to do," says resident Bernie Dame.
"I don't know if there's going to be a smell. I don't know if there is going to be a noise. They have big generators there and is that going to be a problem? The people that own it don't tell us anything!" Dame adds.
Dame says many who live on North Rear Road close to Manning are upset over the lack of consultation before the structures went up.
"They just went about it the wrong way!" says Dame.
Mayor Tom Bain says as it stands all buildings that are in place have been agriculturally zoned.
But that the company needs municipal approval to get the federal growing permits.
"If they don't get their federal license, or if the municipality turns them down, they've built a building there for nothing," says Bain.
Bain says the medical marijuana company CEN Biotech has been inconsistent with its communication.
"The size of the operation when it originally went in is it was going to be 5000 square feet. But now they're looking at something that originally would have employed 5 people now they're looking at employing 100 and would take in acres and acres, so big difference in the volume and it's a whole separate process now," says Bain.
CEN Biotech's website states it will host its own public open house meeting on October 21st in Emmeryville.
Lakeshore will hold a similar municipal open house on November 4th before any decisions are made.
