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File #: 25-426    Version: Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 3/14/2025 In control: Planning Commission
On agenda: 4/3/2025 Final action: 4/3/2025
Title: Finmark Farms, LLC Conditional Use Permit Assessor's Parcel Numbers: 218-081-002 Record Numbers: PLN-13337-CUP New Harris Area A Conditional Use Permit for 40,000 square feet of existing outdoor commercial cannabis cultivation with no separate ancillary nursery. Estimated annual water usage is 386,812 gallons sourced from two rainwater catchment ponds. One pond is located on APN 218-051-008 and the other is located on APN 218-081-003. Total water storage consists of the 350,000-gallon pond on APN 218-051-008 and the 2,000,000-gallon pond on APN 218-081-003 as well as 5,000 gallons of onsite tanks. Onsite processing in the form of drying is proposed with all other processing to proposed to occur on 218-081-003. Power is provided by PGE and no generator use is proposed.
Attachments: 1. 13337 Staff Report 4.3.25, 2. Attachment 1 - 13337 Draft Resolution, 3. Attachment 1A - 13337 Conditions of Approval, 4. Attachment 1B - 13337 Operations Plan, 5. Attachment 1C - 13337 Site Plan, 6. Attachment 2 - 13337 Location Map, 7. Attachment 3 - 13337 CEQA Addendum, 8. Attachment 4 - 13337 Applicant's Evidence in Support of Findings, 9. Attachment 4A - 13337 Water analysis, 10. Attachment 4B - 13337 Notice of Applicability, 11. Attachment 4C - 13337 Site Management Plan, 12. Attachment 4D - 13337 Road Maintenance Agreement, 13. Attachment 4E - 13337 Lake or Streambed Alteration Agreement, 14. Attachment 5A to 5C - 13337 Referral Agency Comments, 15. Attachment 6 - 13337 Watershed Map, 16. PC Resolution 25-017_Finmark Farms_13337
To: Planning Commission

From: Planning and Building Department

Agenda Section: Consent

SUBJECT:
title
Finmark Farms, LLC Conditional Use Permit
Assessor's Parcel Numbers: 218-081-002
Record Numbers: PLN-13337-CUP
New Harris Area

A Conditional Use Permit for 40,000 square feet of existing outdoor commercial cannabis cultivation with no separate ancillary nursery. Estimated annual water usage is 386,812 gallons sourced from two rainwater catchment ponds. One pond is located on APN 218-051-008 and the other is located on APN 218-081-003. Total water storage consists of the 350,000-gallon pond on APN 218-051-008 and the 2,000,000-gallon pond on APN 218-081-003 as well as 5,000 gallons of onsite tanks. Onsite processing in the form of drying is proposed with all other processing to proposed to occur on 218-081-003. Power is provided by PGE and no generator use is proposed.
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Planning Commission:
1. Adopt the resolution, (Attachments 1) which does the following:

a. Finds the Planning Commission has considered the Mitigated Negative Declaration previously adopted for the Commercial Medical Marijuana Land Use Ordinance and the Addendum that was prepared for the Finmark Farms, LLC project (Attachment 3); and

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

c. Approves the Finmark Farms, LLC Conditional Use Permit subject to the conditions of approval (Attachments 1A).
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DISCUSSION:
Project Location:
The project is in the New Harris area, on the East and West side of Hogtrap Road, approximately 300 feet North from the intersection of Southface Road and Hogtrap Road, on the property known as 1776 Hogtrap Road.

Present General Plan Land Use Designation:
Residential Agriculture (RA); 2017 General Plan; Density: 40 acres per unit; Slope Stability: High Instability (3).

Present Zoning:
Forestry Recreation (FR); Special Building Site (B-5(40)).
Environmental Review: ...

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