COUNTY OF LAKE - File #: 21-272

• File #: 21-272
• Version: 1
• Type: Action Item
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 4/2/2021
• In control: Planning Commission
• On agenda: 4/8/2021
• Title: 9:40 a.m. (Continued from March 25, 2021) PUBLIC HEARING to Discuss and Consider Zoning Text Amendment (AM 21-01) to Article 27 of the Lake County Zoning Ordinance pertaining to the Cultivation of Commercial Cannabis. The applicant is the COUNTY OF LAKE.
• Sponsors: Community Development

Memorandum



I. Executive Summary:

On December 15, 2020, the Board of Supervisors approved amending the Zoning Ordinance Article 27 via Ordinance 3101 which accomplished several actions:
1. Created Farmland Protection Zones to protect the four areas of agricultural land of high importance where it is not possible to cultivate outdoor cannabis within its borders or within 1,000 feet of its borders.
2. Included language to state that there is to be no outdoor cultivation occurring within the Farmland Protection zones since these areas are connected to a larger network (not isolated).
o Outdoor cultivation may not occur within 1,000 feet of these zones
o If a proposed cultivation is located within one mile of the Farmland Protection Zone, vegetation screening must be present.

Ordinance 3101 was approved by the BOS on December 15, 2020 and became effective January 13, 2021.

During that same meeting on December 15, 2020 the Board of Supervisors directed the Planning Commission via Resolution of Intention #2020-184 to discuss and consider additional language to provide clarity for the timing of the implementation of Ordinance 3101:
1. 500' buffer from garden to garden on Parcels outside of the Farmland Protection Zone and has the designation of Farmland Designation
2. If outdoor cultivation of cannabis is less than one mile from Farmland Designation, vegetation screening is required

1. RECOMMENDATIONS
The Planning Commission recommends to the Board of Supervisors of the County of Lake the formal adoption and approval of the proposed Zoning Ordinance Text Amendments, AM 21-01 as outlined below

Staff recommends that the planning commission discuss and consider a language protecting active agricultural activity on parcels within any of these designations.
1. Farmland Designation (prime farmland, unique farmland, farmland of local importance, and farmland of statewide importance) covers the four farmland types which are outside of the Farmland Protection Zone a...