File #: 23-1218    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Zoning Item Status: Consent Agenda
File created: 8/28/2023 In control: Zoning Administrator
On agenda: 9/7/2023 Final action: 9/7/2023
Title: Flore Farms Inc. Special Permit Assessor Parcel Number (APN) 223-074-009 Record No.: PLN-10784-SP Garberville area A Special Permit for 10,000 square feet of existing outdoor light-deprivation cannabis cultivation occurring in 17 greenhouses, and a 600 square-foot ancillary propagation nursery. There will be up to two flowering cycles per year. Water for irrigation will be sourced from a 230,000-gallon rain catchment tank. Water is currently sourced from a well and a 50,000-gallon tank on an adjacent property (APN 223-074-011). The applicant is proposing to stop using this system when the 230,000-gallon rain catchment tank is installed. There is an additional 17,300 gallons of hard storage that will be filled from the catchment tank. Annual water use for irrigation is 126,000 gallons. There will be up to two full-time seasonal employees on site during cultivation cycles. Cannabis will be dried and stored in a proposed 2,880 square-foot barn structure. The dried cannabis will ...
Attachments: 1. 10784 Staff Report 9.7.23, 2. Attachment 1 - Draft Resolution, 3. Attachment 1A - Conditions of Approval, 4. Attachment 1B - Operations Plan, 5. Attachment 1C - Site Plan, 6. Attachment 2 - Location Maps, 7. Attachment 3 - CEQA Addendum, 8. Attachment 4 - Applicant's Evidence in Support of Required Findings, 9. Attachment 4A - Site Management Plan, 10. Attachment 4B - Lake or Streambed Alteration Agreement, 11. Attachment 4C - Biological Habitat Assessment, 12. Attachment 4D - Preliminary Biological Resource Assessment, 13. Attachment 4E - Roadway Evaluation Report, 14. Attachment 4F - Roadway Evaluation Work Inspection, 15. Attachment 5 - Referral Agency Comments and Recommendations
To: Zoning Administrator

From: Planning and Building Department

Agenda Section: Consent

SUBJECT:
title
Flore Farms Inc. Special Permit
Assessor Parcel Number (APN) 223-074-009
Record No.: PLN-10784-SP
Garberville area

A Special Permit for 10,000 square feet of existing outdoor light-deprivation cannabis cultivation occurring in 17 greenhouses, and a 600 square-foot ancillary propagation nursery. There will be up to two flowering cycles per year. Water for irrigation will be sourced from a 230,000-gallon rain catchment tank. Water is currently sourced from a well and a 50,000-gallon tank on an adjacent property (APN 223-074-011). The applicant is proposing to stop using this system when the 230,000-gallon rain catchment tank is installed. There is an additional 17,300 gallons of hard storage that will be filled from the catchment tank. Annual water use for irrigation is 126,000 gallons. There will be up to two full-time seasonal employees on site during cultivation cycles. Cannabis will be dried and stored in a proposed 2,880 square-foot barn structure. The dried cannabis will then be moved to the applicant's licensed distributorship in Santa Rosa, CA where it will be trimmed, tested, packaged, and distributed. No power is required for cultivation activities.
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Zoning Administrator:
1. Adopt the resolution (Resolution 23-__). (Attachment 1) which does the following:

a. Finds that the Zoning Administrator has considered the adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Commercial Medical Marijuana Land Use Ordinance and the Addendum that was prepared for the Flore Farms Inc. project; and

b. Finds that the proposed project complies with the General Plan and Zoning Ordinance; and

c. Approves the Flore Farms Inc. Special Permit subject to the recommended conditions of approval (Attachment 1A).


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DISCUSSION:
Project Location: The project is located in the Garberville area, south of Too...

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