Memorandum
Date: March 10, 2020
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Scott DeLeon, Eric Porter - Community Development
Subject: Appeal to Board of Supervisors, AB 19-05 for Major Use Permit UP 18-39 (Smith/Hosfelt Appeal)
Exhibits: A - AB 19-05 Appeal Packet
B - Planning Commission Staff Report Packet and Attachments (May 13, 2019)
C - Planning Commission Minutes (May 23, 2019)
D - Public Resource Code 4290 and 4291 Report
E - Conditions of Approval
F - Site Plans
G - Water Permit
H - Water Projections
I - Erosion Control Plan
Executive Summary: (include fiscal and staffing impact narrative):
The appellant, Todd Hosfelt represented by attorney Andre Ross, is appealing the Planning Commission's May 23, 2019 decision to adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration and approve a Major Use Permit (Files No. UP 18-39 and IS 18-52), which if approved would allow an A-Type 3B (medium mixed light) commercial cannabis cultivation site at 10544 Bachelor Valley Road, Witter Springs; APN number 003-018-10. Approval would allow up to 29,880 square feet (s.f.) of cultivation area and up to 19,920 s.f. of canopy inside six greenhouses.
The use permit applicant, Vivian Smith, and owner Michael Smith, applied for an A-Type 3B (medium mixed light) commercial cannabis application. The cultivation area would use water diverted from an existing on-site pond, and would use (6) 41.5' x 120' greenhouses and a 3,000 s.f. processing (drying) building. The applicant also seeks an A-Type 13 'Self Distribution' license; this was not available as an option when the applicant originally applied for the Use Permit in 2018. The +33.4 acre property is split-zoned RL-WW-SC Rural Lands-Waterway-Scenic Corridor, and RR-WW-SC Rural Residential-Waterway-Scenic Corridor, both of which allow commercial adult-use cannabis cultivation subject to approval of a use permit.
On May 23, 2019, the Planning Commission held the public hearing for the ...
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