Westchester cannabis grower targets Breezy Meadows
by Robert Lynch; April 22, 2025
An Ossining, NY-based company with a strange sounding name may establish a marijuana farm and processing facility off Halseyville Road within Enfield’s Breezy Meadows subdivision. And because a majority of the Enfield Town Board has agreed to fast-track the approval process, local residents may have little voice into whether the state should grant the company a license.
In an email to the Enfield Town Board April 15, Daysi Briones, president of IQ CANNABIS-KHUYAY CORP. (“Iq Cannabis”), requested a “Letter of No Objection” from Town officials, a requirement to secure permission from New York’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) for an” Adult-Use Microbusiness License” at Breezy Meadows. Briones had requested a response by April 22, just one week later.
Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond confirmed Tuesday, the 22nd that the Letter of No Objection had been sent based on the majority opinion of Town Board members. One Enfield Councilperson (this writer) also wrote the applicant that day to clarify that no formal approval vote had actually been taken.
Company president Briones stated in her letter to the Town that Iq Cannabis had purchased Lot 33 in Breezy Meadows which subdivision documents identify as a 5.035-acre parcel, the more northerly of two Breezy Meadows lots which abut the west side of Halseyville Road. (Look for the patch of woods.)
“Our intended use of the land is for agricultural cannabis cultivation, utilizing both outdoor and mixed-light methods,” Briones stated in the company’s email. “We also plan to conduct agricultural processing activities on-site (including drying and trimming). No on-site retail or public commercial traffic is planned,” she stated.
Briones’ email sent the Town Board provided no further details of the project.
Iq Cannabis’ email caught Town Board members by surprise.
The time stamp on Daysi Briones’ email indicates it was sent at 7:50 PM on April 15. In little more than an hour, Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond had shared the message with other Town Board members, asking them to weigh in on the company’s request for a Letter of No Objection. That letter is apparently all the company needs at the moment to advance its application with the Office of Cannabis Management.
Redmond pointed to Briones’ hurried April 22 deadline for a reply. The date would come well before the Town Board’s next scheduled meeting on May 14. And rather than call a special session, Redmond circulated the Iq Cannabis email, asking board members to “weigh in to let me know” if they’d approve her sending the letter. Redmond stated that she, herself, had no objections to the letter being sent.
By the following morning, April 16, Councilpersons Cassandra Hinkle and Melissa Millspaugh had emailed their lack of objections, thereby joining with Redmond to constitute a Town Board majority of three.
Yet Councilperson Robert Lynch (this writer) weighed in differently.
“I must respectfully abstain,” Lynch replied in an email that same morning. “I know too little about what IQ CANNABIS-KHUYAY CORP. proposes for Lot 33 at Breezy Meadows to express my support at this time,” he wrote. “Those whom we represent may have concerns or objections, and those objections deserve the opportunity to be aired at a timely-called Town Board meeting.”
“I cannot believe that the permitting procedure employed for the requested Adult-Use Microbusiness License did not accord Daysi Briones sufficient time to come before our Town Board at a prior monthly meeting, outline the company’s plans, and receive residents’ inquiries,” Lynch wrote Town Board colleagues. “As the saying goes, ‘Failure to plan on your part does not create a crisis on my part,’” he stated.
Under parliamentary procedure, an abstention is treated the same as a dissent.
The final and fifth Town Board member, Jude Lemke, had not expressed her opinion on the matter to Town Board colleagues by the morning of the deadline.
Upon learning from Supervisor Redmond that a Letter of No Objection had been sent based on a three-member informal poll, Councilperson Lynch wrote Iq Cannabis his own letter April 22 the clarify the limited nature of the Town Board’s consent.
“In my opinion, writing as one Town Board member, any implied local municipal consent given to the proposed IQ CANNABIS-KHUYAY operation stands premature and has been stated apart from our Town’s customary authorization procedures,” Lynch wrote. He requested that his comments be incorporated into any communications the company has with the OCM concerting local approval.
Two years ago, New York Land & Lakes, an Oneonta-based real estate developer, purchased the 337-acre John William Kenney farm between Halseyville and Podunk Roads in Enfield and subdivided it into 33 building lots. News of the subdivision prompted initial neighborhood objections, with critics fearing depletion of their water wells, loss of agricultural land, and damage to Tucker Road, the gravel roadway that transects the former farm.
Despite the objections, the Enfield Town Planning Board approved the Breezy Meadows subdivision that June. By late-2023, Land & Lakes had sold off most of the lots. Now, two years later, few parcels have seen development.
Depending on its construction timetable, IQ Cannabis may become among the first purchasers to break ground.
“We believe this use aligns with the protective covenants outlined in the recorded Warranty Deed, which permits agricultural and non-commercial uses,” Briones stated as to the cannabis growing and processing operation.
But the extent to which IQ Cannabis would develop the site, and just what it would put there, remain unclear.
“The company’s plans for ‘agricultural processing activities on-site’ raise issues of whether the Iq Cannabis-khuyay operation borders on an industrial activity,” Councilperson Lynch wrote Town Board colleagues April 16.
“The Town of Enfield has no zoning law,” Lynch informed Iq Cannabis in his letter April 22. “All site plan review is conducted by the Town of Enfield Planning Board,” he explained. “To date, the Planning Board has not considered this development. To the best of my knowledge, Planning Board members remain unaware of it. The Planning Board must decide whether our Town’s Site Plan Review Law empowers its oversight of the quasi-industrial operation proposed by your company.”
Iq Cannabis-khuyay Corporation was founded in July 2021, according to corporate records on file with the New York Department of State. It lists its headquarters as 4 Narragansett Avenue, Ossining, NY, in Westchester County. No other information about the firm was readily available.
Daysi Briones held out the opportunity to meet with the Enfield Town Board if required to do so and provide the Town additional information. Lynch urged Board members to accept that opportunity.
“Make no mistake. I do not necessarily oppose the IQ CANNABIS-KHUYAY Corporation’s proposal. I just know too little of it,” Lynch wrote the applicant Tuesday. “In my opinion, the letter submitted your company on our Town’s behalf should only issue following full consideration at a public meeting where public input is both permitted and invited. Such has not occurred. And of that shortcoming, the OCM should be made aware.”
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