TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Mireya Turner, Community Development Director
Mary Claybon, Senior Planner
DATE: April 1, 2025 (Continued from March 25, 2025)
SUBJECT: 10:00 A.M. - Consideration of Appeal (AB 24-05) of Planning Commission's Denial of Major Use Permit (UP 20-14), Nina Star Farms, LLC/ Nevelina Bogdanova, applicant and appellant; location: 23180 Shady Grove Road, Middletown (APN 014-006-16)
Exhibits
A. Staff Report from the December 12, 2024, Planning Commission hearing with the following attachments:
1. Project Site Plans (7/2023)
2. Draft Conditions of Approval
3. Property Management Plan (8/2023)
4. Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration (8/6/2024)
5. Hydrology Report (9/6/2021)
6. Drought Management Plan (9/6/2021)
7. Biological Assessments (2/2/2020, 10/8/2024)
8. Electrical Load Calculations (8/4/2023)
9. Agency Comment
10. Tribal Comment
11. Public Comment
B. Planning Commission Minutes from December 12, 2024, Public Hearing
C. Appeal Application (AB 24-05)
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On December 12, 2024, the Lake County Planning Commission denied a Major Use Permit (UP 20-14) request for commercial cannabis cultivation consisting of two (2) A-Type 3B licenses for 37,446 square feet (sf) of mixed-light canopy within a 48,529 sf cultivation area and an A-Type 13 Distributor, Self-Distribution, transport only license.
At the December 12 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 4-0 vote, with one commissioner absent. The Planning Commission staff report and associated attachments are included as Exhibit A; the minutes of the meeting are included as Exhibit B. The meeting may be viewed online at: Planning Commission on 2024-12-12 9:00 AM -
In accordance with the Lake County Code, Zoning Ordinance Article 58, Section 21-58 subsection 58.31, the app...
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