Brookline residents on Tuesday night rejected a move to place playgrounds and day cares among sites that should be shielded from medical marijuana dispensaries by a 500-foot buffer zone.

Town meeting members voted to take “no action,” according to the town’s website.

The town’s board of selectmen and zoning bylaws committee had previously recommended that town meeting members reject the measure.

Brookline Residents for Responsible RMD Zoning (BRRRZ) had pushed for the measure, arguing that the town’s zoning standards don’t include playgrounds, and should match up with the state minimum of 500 feet.

Day care centers are only precluded from being in the same building as a dispensary, said the group, which included Elizabeth Childs, a former state mental health commissioner.

Arnon Vered, executive director of New England Treatment Access Inc. (NETA), which is seeking to open a dispensary in Brookline, wrote a Nov. 12 letter to town meeting members calling the measure a “political maneuver” to ban registered marijuana dispensaries in the town.

NETA has picked the former Brookline Savings Bank building on Route 9 and Washington Street as its location.

In the letter, he said the company is committed to “being a good neighbor and will strive to be a source of pride for the community.”

NETA plans to create a community advisory board of local residents and business owners who will advise NETA on “local impact mitigation” and disbursement of charitable funds, he added.