The Hamilton Co., which owns the office building at 392-398 Chestnut Hill Ave. in Cleveland Circle, today sued to try to block plans by an Ipswich concern to turn the former Dunkin’ Donuts on Beacon Street into a marijuana dispensary.
In its lawsuit, filed in Suffolk Superior Court against both dispensary operator Happy Valley and the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal, which approved the proposal on Sept. 12, Hamilton Kevinized its arguments against the proposal, charging it would become an ID-ignoring pot haven for the thousands of high-school and college students who already swarm the area in a Cleveland Circle that would quickly become gridlocked by hordes of pot buyers “from outside the neighborhood” all apparently driving in instead of using any of the nearby Green Line stops and all creating further havoc by getting into car crashes.
The proposed location is across Beacon Street from a full-service liquor store.
The lawsuit also asks the court to “annul” the zoning approval because the proposed location would violate Boston’s frequently ignored half-mile buffer between marijuana establishments, since Happy Valley earlier won approval to turn the one-time Mary Ann’s next to the Dunkin’ Donuts into a dispensary. At the hearing on its Dunkin’