GREENFIELD — The Planning Board has approved the site plan for a mixed-use housing and cannabis retail development being proposed for 220-228 Main St.

According to records obtained from the state’s property records database, Florida-based developer Frank Cid purchased the roughly 2,200-square-foot property from his own company, Shield Investment Group Inc., in April for $1. The building was formerly occupied by Country Jeweler and Greenfield Games.

Cid plans to create four apartments on the building’s long-vacant second floor and two commercial spaces on its ground floor. According to Steven Drakulich, the architect in charge of the project, he has already “gutted” the building’s interior as it undergoes major renovations. The architect added that the second-floor housing will consist of one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments equipped with laundry machines.

“We’re actually going to be restructuring the front on Main Street to accommodate our two new commercial units,” Drakulich explained, presenting blueprints to the Planning Board last week. “We’re building a new lobby — there will be a little apartment building lobby there that will have mailboxes. It will have an intercom system. … There is an existing hallway that links both of the stairs, and we’re basically using that to divide it up. We’ve got four apartments — two on Chapman, one on Main Street and then one at the back.”

Drakulich told the Planning Board that Cid intends to open a cannabis dispensary on the ground floor of the development, which he said will likely require further permit approvals from the Zoning Board of Appeals.

When Planning Board Chair George Touloumtzis asked Drakulich whether the building will be made accessible for people with disabilities, he said that while the second-floor apartments cannot be made accessible, the installation of mechanical doors at the storefront will bring the proposed development in compliance with building codes pertaining to disability access.

“It’s always an issue that we grapple with, because there are two things that are fighting against each other — one is that there’s a requirement on a pull for a handicapped-accessible entrance door that has to meet a certain maximum pull force to get into the building,” Drakulich said. “In a windy location, the closers always have trouble. If you turn the closer down so that it’s easily accessible, lots of times, the door just stays wide open full-time because the wind is keeping it that way. The solution for that is a mechanically operated door.”

Vice Chair Jeff Sauser suggested that the developer install front-facing windows at the site’s second-floor apartments, a design feature that Drakulich agreed to as a condition for the project’s approval by the Planning Board.

The board approved the project under the condition that the retail space’s windows on the ground floor be completely transparent — a design element that Greenfield Planning Director Eric Twarog noted will likely be reconsidered in the event that the proposed dispensary’s special permit application makes its way to the Zoning Board of Appeals, since state Cannabis Control Commission regulations require marijuana retailers to obscure their store rooms using tinted or translucent windows.

“Because this is not a hearing for a cannabis dispensary, and it’s a site plan review for office space by right, you can condition that,” Twarog told the board. “If they go back before the ZBA for a dispensary [permit], then the condition would have to be that they have to be opaque.”

Cid could not be reached for comment on the planned development by press time on Wednesday.

Anthony Cammalleri can be reached at acammalleri@recorder.com or 413-930-4429.