The Crestwood Board of Aldermen meeting on Aug. 26 began with a slew of public hearings. Among those hearings were discussions of conditional use permits to be granted to the Turkish American Intercultural Educational Foundation and, separately, the Proper Cannabis dispensary. Both permits were granted by the board.
The Turkish American Intercultural Educational Foundation (TAIEF) is relocating its facility from Lemay to Crestwood, where it will operate at 9201 Watson Road. The foundation aims to “provide a meeting and community center for inter-faith and inter-cultural meetings and gatherings,” as well as offer cooking classes, educational outreach, lectures and more.
The conditional use permit for TAIEF, approved at the Aug. 26 meeting, allows it to operate as Assembly-Limited in a C-1 local business district — Assembly-Limited, marking it as a public gathering place.
TAIEF applied for and was granted the conditional use permit in November 2024, but the permit expired in May when construction and operation had not begun. The owner says that everything is in place this time around to continue the process without interruption.
The Board of Aldermen also discussed an hours expansion for Proper Cannabis, 9933 Watson Road, which was approved at the meeting through a conditional use permit. The dispensary’s hours are now 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; the previous hours were 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
When recreational cannabis dispensaries were allowed in the city in 2023, the standard hours of operation ended at 9 p.m.
“We’ve seen that other municipalities in St. Louis County have allowed extended hours up to 10 p.m. or later,” said Crestwood city planner Danny Jendusa. “The city staff felt it was an opportunity to allow the Board of Aldermen to grant extended hours on a case-by-case basis.”
In order to expand Proper Cannabis’s hours, the aldermen passed a resolution that would allow dispensaries to request extended hours past 9 p.m. through the conditional use permit process. As of now, Proper Cannabis is the only dispensary in Crestwood; any future dispensaries would have a default closing time of 9 p.m., unless they went through the application process.
