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File #: 26-23    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: New Business
File created: 1/5/2026 In control: Zoning Administrator
On agenda: 1/15/2026 Final action:
Title: PDCON Enterprises, LLC, Special Permit Assessor Parcel Numbers (APN) 222-156-013 Record No.: PLN-2021-16964 Garberville area A Special Permit for 28,500 square feet of new outdoor cannabis cultivation utilizing light deprivation techniques and 1,980 square feet of ancillary nursery space. Cultivation includes two harvests cycles annually. Irrigation water is provided by rainwater catchment from a proposed greenhouse and will be stored in fifty 5,000-gallon water tanks or one hundred 2500-gallon tanks (250,000 gallons total storage). The applicant estimates an annual water use of approximately 125,000 for cannabis operations, approximately 4.39 gallons per square foot per year. Processing will be completed off site at a licensed third-party processing facility. Power will be provided by a solar array. No employees are proposed for this project.
Attachments: 1. 16964 Staff Report 1.15.26, 2. Attachment 1 - Draft Resolution, 3. Attachment 1A - Conditions of Approval, 4. Attachment 1B - Cultivation Operations Plan, 5. Attachment 1C - Addendum to Cultivation Operation Plan, 6. Attachment 1D - Site Plan, 7. Attachment 2 - Location Map, 8. Attachment 3 - CEQA Addendum, 9. Attachment 4 - Applicant's Evidence in Support of Requried Findings, 10. Attachment 4A - Notification of Lake or Streambe Alteration, 11. Attachment 4B - State Water Resources Control Board Notice of Receipt, 12. Attachment 4C - Road Evaluation, 13. Attachment 4D - Biological Resource Assessment, 14. Attachment 4E - Botanical Survey, 15. Attachment 4F - Noise Assessment, 16. Attachment 4G - Invasive Species Control and Management Plan, 17. Attachment 5 - Referral Agency Comments and Recommendations, 18. Attachment 5A - Building Inspection Division Referral Response, 19. Attachment 5B - DEH Referral Response, 20. Attachment 5C - Public Works Referral Response, 21. Attachment 5D - DFW Referral Response
To: Zoning Administrator

From: Planning and Building Department

Agenda Section: Consent

SUBJECT:
title
PDCON Enterprises, LLC, Special Permit
Assessor Parcel Numbers (APN) 222-156-013
Record No.: PLN-2021-16964
Garberville area

A Special Permit for 28,500 square feet of new outdoor cannabis cultivation utilizing light deprivation techniques and 1,980 square feet of ancillary nursery space. Cultivation includes two harvests cycles annually. Irrigation water is provided by rainwater catchment from a proposed greenhouse and will be stored in fifty 5,000-gallon water tanks or one hundred 2500-gallon tanks (250,000 gallons total storage). The applicant estimates an annual water use of approximately 125,000 for cannabis operations, approximately 4.39 gallons per square foot per year. Processing will be completed off site at a licensed third-party processing facility. Power will be provided by a solar array. No employees are proposed for this project.
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Zoning Administrator:

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

a. Finds that the Zoning Administrator has considered the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Commercial Cannabis Land Use Ordinance and the Addendum that was prepared for the PDCON Enterprises, LLC project; and

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

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

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DISCUSSION:
Project Location:
This project is located in the Garberville area, on the northwest side of Connick Creek Road, approximately 1,400 feet northeast from the intersection of Connick Creek Road and Kadin Way, on the property known to be in the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 23 of Township 04 South, Range 03 East, Humboldt Base & Meridian.

Present General Plan Land Use Designation:
Residential Agriculture (RA40), Density: 40 acr...

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