Memorandum
Date: March 12, 2024
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Mireya G. Turner, Community Development Director
Michelle Irace, Principal Planner
Subject: 10:00 A.M. - Consideration of Appeal (AB 24-01) of Planning Commission's Denial of Major Use Permit (UP 20-40), Higher Ground Farms / John Oliver applicant and appellant; location: 3545 Finley East Road, Kelseyville (APN: 008-026-07)
Exhibits
A. Staff Report from the January 11, 2024 Planning Commission hearing with the following attachments:
1. Site Plans
2. Draft Conditions of Approval
3. Property Management Plan
4. Initial Study (IS 20-50)
5. Hydrology Report and Drought Management Plan
6. Agency Comments
7. Tribal Comments
8. Public Comments (as of January 5, 2024)
B. Planning Commission Minutes from January 11, 2024 Public Hearing
C. Appeal Application (AB 24-01)
D. Public Comments received as of February 20, 2024
E. Conditions of Approval, Revised at the January 11, 2024 Public Hearing
Executive Summary: On January 11, 2024, the Lake County Planning Commission denied a Major Use Permit (UP 20-40) request for commercial cannabis cultivation of 22,000 square feet (sf) of canopy inside eight 30' x 96' greenhouses within a fenced 47,040 sf enclosure on a property located at 3545 Finley East Road, Kelseyville (APN: 008-026-07). The project also proposed one 25'-6" metal 48' x 100' drying building and several small sheds, water tanks and other cannabis-related structures, as well as one Type 13 Cannabis Distributor Transport Only, Self-Distribution License.
At the January 11 hearing, the Planning Commission noted issues related to siting of the proposed project and expressed the position that the project did not fit the character of the neighborhood; the Planning Commission denied the project on a 3 to 1 vote, with Commissioner Hess absent. The Planning Commission Staff Report and associated attachments are included as Exhibit A; the minutes of the meeting are included a...
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