Memorandum
Item 2
9:10AM
September 24, 2020
STAFF REPORT
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Scott DeLeon, Interim Community Development Director
Toccarra Thomas, Deputy Director
Mark Roberts, Principal Planner
Prepared by: Victor Fernandez, Assistant Planner
DATE: September 14, 2020
RE: Better Nature Farms, LLC (Alex Beck). Major Use Permit (UP 18-29), Categorical Exemption (CE 19-48), and Early Activation (EA 20-69). APNs: 002-023-90 and 002-023-93
Supervisor District 3
ATTACHMENTS: 1. Vicinity Map
2. Property Management Plan
3. Agency Comments
4. Proposed Conditions of Approval
5. Existing and Proposed Site Plans
6. Letter from Wildlife Biologist
7. Biological Assessment
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The applicant is requesting approval of a Major Use Permit for Commercial Cannabis Cultivation which includes the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, trimming, and/or any combination of those activities, including processing. The applicant seeks approval of the following license(s):
* (One) A - Type 3: "Outdoor": Outdoor cultivation for adult use cannabis without the use of light deprivation and/or artificial lighting in the canopy area at any point in time from 10,001 square feet to one acre, inclusive, of total canopy size on one premises.
* (One) A - Type 2: "small outdoor": Outdoor cultivation for adult use cannabis without the use of light deprivation and/or artificial lighting in the canopy area at any point in time between 5,001 and 10,000 square feet, inclusive, of total canopy size on one premises.
* (Two) A - Type 1C: "specialty cottage": Cultivation for adult use cannabis of 2,500 square feet or less of total canopy size for mixed-light cultivation using light deprivation and/or artificial lighting below a rate of 25 watts per square foot, up to 25 mature plants for outdoor cultivation without the use of light deprivation and/or artificial lighting in the canopy area at any poin...
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