LEWISTON — Councilors will get their first look at a proposed Mollison Way methadone clinic at their meeting Tuesday.

If councilors approve, the city can grant Massachusetts-based Community Substance Abuse Centers a license to locate the first Lewiston-based methadone substance abuse clinic at 18 Mollison Way.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. in Lewiston City Hall.

Members of the Lewiston Planning Board in February voted that the company’s proposal meets Lewiston’s strict licensing rules and passed the matter on to the City Council.

The City Council, which adopted the licensing rules in 2006, can review the current license and the city’s licensing rules.

“It’s the council’s first hearing on the application, and they can certainly look at the whole list of criteria,” City Administrator Ed Barrett said.

Lewiston requires substance abuse treatment centers to get a business license from the city. That license must be approved by the City Council and is then reviewed annually by the City Council. The ordinance allows substance abuse treatment centers to be built as long as they are a minimum of 1,000 feet from churches, schools, parks or day care centers or facilities. It also limits them to certain zoning districts.

Company officials last month said they had requirements of their own. They want their clinic located on the Twin Cities’ bus line.

According to all of those requirements, the Mollison Way space is one of only two areas where the clinic can be located, according to the company. The other is near the intersection of Main and Russell streets.

Neighbors have argued that the proposed Mollison Way site is still too close to children. It shares a building with Sparetime Recreation and is across the street from a pediatric clinic.

Barrett said everyone would get to have their say Tuesday.

“Everyone will be able to speak to the application, including the public,” Barrett said.

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