YORK, Maine — The York Planning Board on Friday morning took a site walk of 16 White Birch Lane, property located next door to a medical marijuana facility.

Two neighbors also joined the walk to see where property owner Josh Stauble is seeking to build a 7,500-square-foot metal building next to an existing building where he operates his online electronics company, In and Out Computers, he said.

Abutter Chuck Ott said, “The 800-pound gorilla is [the question of], ‘Will this become an extension of the manufacturing of medical marijuana?’ Is it a good idea to have a huge concentration of medical marijuana in one location?”

Stauble declined to say what he intends to do with the new building, if approved.

He is the son-in-law of Robert Grant, who owns 17 White Birch Lane, where an estimated nine caregivers grow medical marijuana.

“Guilty by association,” said Planning Board member Lew Stowe, quoting a comment Stauble made during a July meeting.

Stowe said he expected more neighbors to show up for the site walk, as they have for Planning Board meetings whenever the issue of medical marijuana comes up.

“I read into it they are OK [with Stauble’s intended plan],” Stowe said.

Stauble and Edward Brake of Attar Engineering are expected to present their proposal to the Planning Board this year, possibly in November.

It includes a locked gate across White Birch Lane, prior to where the road approaches number 16 and 17, which also includes Grant’s company, Maine Coast Lumber.

Workers on Friday were doing construction at the gate site.

Ott said he and neighbor Robbie Kneeland are to be given a card to unlock the gate to be able to access pasture land they jointly own off that portion of White Birch Lane.

Ott and Kneeland are offering to share with Stauble the cost of an engineering study to put the septic system for 16 White Birch Lane on Stauble Realty property, rather than on the pasture, which Stauble has a deeded right to do.

Ott plans to eventually place the rolling green pasture into a conservation easement with the York Land Trust, he said.

In July, Stauble and Brake brought a sketch plan to the Planning Board for a nonbinding review of the building at 16 White Birch Lane.

A half dozen neighbors speaking at the meeting voiced concern of traffic and other issues they said were caused by the medical marijuana building. Neighbors said cars are coming into White Birch Lane during the night and early morning hours.

On Monday, Ott said the locked gate should help ease that concern.

This summer, Grant won an appeal with the Appeals Board that allows medical marijuana operations to continue at his warehouse as a grandfathered manufacturing use.

Abutter Mike Briggs of Emus Way and three neighbors have filed an appeal of that ruling in York County Superior Court. They want the court to remand the matter back to the town and the Appeals Board, and to direct the board to deny Grant’s appeal.

Two marijuana-related questions are expected to go before voters in November. One is to have an ordinance, retroactive to May, restricting medical marijuana as a land use to a section of Route 1. The 17 White Birch Lane warehouse would be grandfathered.

The second is a petitioned question to legalize one ounce of marijuana for adults 21 and over to use in the privacy of their homes. While selectmen rejected placing the question on the ballot, proponents are expected to use other means to put the article before voters.