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File #: 25-1129    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: New Business
File created: 9/9/2025 In control: Planning Commission
On agenda: 9/18/2025 Final action:
Title: Humboldt Flavor, LLC. Conditional Use Permit and Special Permit Assessor's Parcel Numbers: 210-074-008-000, 210-074-007-000 Record Numbers: PLN-12935-CUP Larabee Valley area A Conditional Use Permit request for 15,545 square feet (SF) of existing outdoor cultivation utilizing light deprivation techniques. Ancillary nursery area totals 1,260 square feet. Irrigation water is sourced from a permitted groundwater well. Existing water storage totals 47,000 gallons in hard tanks. The estimated annual irrigation water need is 200,000 gallons (12.87 gallons per square foot). Processing will occur offsite at a licensed third-party facility. Power is provided by a generator and a recommended condition of approval will be to require electricity to be sourced from renewable sources by January 1, 2026. The applicant is also requesting a Special Permit for a setback reduction to public lands.
Attachments: 1. 12935 Staff Report 9.18.25, 2. Attachment 1 - Draft Resolution, 3. Attachment 1A - Conditions of Approval, 4. Attachment 1B - Cultivation Operations Plan and Addendum, 5. Attachment 1C - Site Plan 09.05.2025, 6. Attachment 1D - Legal Parcel Configuration, 7. Attachment 2 - Location Map, 8. Attachment 3 - CEQA Addendum, 9. Attachment 4 - Applicant's Evidence in Support of Required Findings, 10. Attachment 4A - Irrigation Well Completion Report, 11. Attachment 4B - 12935 WRPP & SMP Cover Letter_Spurlock_059, 12. Attachment 4C - 23203 Executed DCC Renewable Energy Grant Agreement, 13. Attachment 4D - 12935 Road Evaluation 1.6.2022, 14. Attachment 4E - 12935 Soils Report 06.30.2017, 15. Attachment 4F - Cal Fire Exempt- 3 acre conversion Spurlock, 16. Attachment 4G - 16749 14157 NOM and COSC 2025-009552, 17. Attachment 4H - 16749 14157 NOM and COSC 2025-009552, 18. Attachment 5 - Referral Agency Comments and Recomendations, 19. Attachment 5A - 12935_ref_Environmental Health, 20. Attachment 5B - 12935_ref_CDFW, 21. Attachment 5C - 12935_ref_CALFIRE, 22. Attachment 5D - 12935_ref_Public Works, 23. Attachment 6 - Watershed Map
To: Planning Commission

From: Planning and Building Department

Agenda Section: Consent

SUBJECT:
title
Humboldt Flavor, LLC. Conditional Use Permit and Special Permit
Assessor's Parcel Numbers: 210-074-008-000, 210-074-007-000
Record Numbers: PLN-12935-CUP
Larabee Valley area

A Conditional Use Permit request for 15,545 square feet (SF) of existing outdoor cultivation utilizing light deprivation techniques. Ancillary nursery area totals 1,260 square feet. Irrigation water is sourced from a permitted groundwater well. Existing water storage totals 47,000 gallons in hard tanks. The estimated annual irrigation water need is 200,000 gallons (12.87 gallons per square foot). Processing will occur offsite at a licensed third-party facility. Power is provided by a generator and a recommended condition of approval will be to require electricity to be sourced from renewable sources by January 1, 2026. The applicant is also requesting a Special Permit for a setback reduction to public lands.
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Planning Commission:

1. Adopt the resolution, (Attachment 1) which does the following:

a. Finds that the Planning Commission has considered the Mitigated Negative Declaration that was previously adopted for the Commercial Medical Marijuana Land Use Ordinance as well as the Addendum to the Mitigated Negative Declaration that was prepared for the Humboldt Flavor, Inc. project (Attachment 3); and

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

c. Approves the Humboldt Flavor, Inc. Conditional Use Permit and Special Permit subject to the recommended conditions of approval (Attachment 1A).

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DISCUSSION:
Project Location:
The project is located in the Larabee Valley area, off of Butte Creek Road, approximately 2.10 miles from the intersection of State Highway 36 and Butte Creek Road, on the property known to be in the southeast quarter of Section 35 of Township 1N, Range 04E,...

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