Some say enough is enough.

A number of area residents are complaining about the large number of marijuana stores popping up in the community.

There are about 15 stores that sell cannabis or related products in our area from Mimico west to Long Branch, according to a recent survey by South Etobicoke News.

Now city councillors Kristyn Wong-Tam and Paula Fletcher are seeking a one-year moratorium on the issuing of new licenses for cannabis retail stores in Toronto.

They have tabled a bill before city council requesting the Ford government pause the issuing of new licensees for one year or until a private members bill which would give municipalities more say over the location of pot shops is passed.

Bill 29 has already passed first reading in the legislature.

“There’s a lot of cannabis stores but the problem is they’re clustered in certain areas,” Fletcher, who represents the east-end riding of Toronto-Danforth, told CP24. “I don’t want to give the wrong impression. I’m all in favor of the legalization of marijuana but the over concentration of stores is becoming a problem in parts of Toronto.”

When cannabis was first legalized in 2018 the Ontario government allowed municipalities to opt in or out of having brick-and-mortar retail stores in their communities.

But it did not give municipalities that did opt in any say over the location of cannabis stores or even the number of them that can be located in any single neighbourhood.

Fletcher called it a “wild wild west” environment where some main streets are being increasingly taken over by cannabis retailers.

In downtown Toronto there there were 163 cannabis retail outlets as of last summer, according to one report.

The motion which will be considered by council says that municipalities already have the ability to weigh in on the location of other businesses that sell controlled substances, such as LCBO storefronts, and that the same process should apply to cannabis retail outlets.