Memorandum
STAFF REPORT
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Scott DeLeon, Interim Community Development Director
Prepared by: Eric Porter, Associate Planner
DATE: May 27, 2021
RE: Kindness Farms / Tiffany Devitt; Major Use Permit (UP 19-13) and Initial Study (IS 19-25)
Supervisor District 4
ATTACHMENTS: 1. Vicinity Map
2. Site Plans
3. Property Management Plan
4. Agency Comments
5. Proposed Conditions of Approval
6. Initial Study IS 19-25
7. Public Comments
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Project Overview
The applicant is requesting a major use permit for ten (10) A-Type 3 (medium outdoor) cultivation area consisting of up to 650,000 square feet (sq. ft.) of cultivation area, however given the location of the site within the mapped Farmland Protection Area, this license will change to ten (10) A-Type 3B licenses within two years of use permit approval, and the allowable canopy area will be reduced to 22,000 sq. ft. per license following the license change; and an A-Type 13 Self Distribution license. The property is located at 2800 Manning Road, Lakeport, and is APN: 008-009-03.
Project History
This application was originally submitted by a different cultivator on May 1, 2020; however the original cultivator did not pass live scan, and the present applicant took over the application in Fall 2020.
In December 2020, the applicant applied for a variance to allow outdoor cultivation to occur on an area that is mapped as 'high value farmland'. On May 25, 2021, the Board of Supervisors allowed for limited duration outdoor cultivation that was required to transition to greenhouse cultivation within several years of use permit approval if the application was determined to be complete on or before December 15, 2020. This application, minus the variance burden of proof, was complete before December 15, 2020. The variance is no longer required based on Ord. no. 3103, the 'transition ordinance for outdoor cannabis in high value farmland (Farmland Protection Zoned-ma...
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