A current and an aspiring member of Caribou City Council have jointly filed a complaint in Maine Superior Court challenging an amendment that the City Council made to a cannabis ordinance in July. They say that the amendment violates Maine law and the city charter.

In the complaint, filed in Caribou Superior Court on Aug. 27 and obtained by the Bangor Daily News, Councilor Dan Bagley and Ben Tucker, who is running for a seat on the council this fall, allege that councilors usurped the authority of the Planning Board by changing the city’s cannabis ordinance without planning board review.

“The decisions and actions of the City Council were arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable, and constitute abuses of discretion,” one of the allegations reads.

Councilors originally approved the change

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