File #: 25-437    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: New Business
File created: 3/18/2025 In control: Planning Commission
On agenda: 4/3/2025 Final action:
Title: Finmark Farms, LLC Conditional Use Permit Assessor's Parcel Numbers: 218-051-008 Record Numbers: PLN-13374-CUP New Harris Area A Conditional Use Permit for 30,000 square feet of existing outdoor commercial cannabis cultivation with supported by a 3,000 square foot ancillary nursery. Estimated annual water usage is 276,840 gallons sourced from two rainwater catchment ponds. One pond is located onsite and the other is located on APN 218-081-003. Total water storage consists of the onsite 350,000-gallon pond and the 2,000,000-gallon pond on APN 218-081-003 as well as 40,500 gallons of onsite tanks. Onsite processing in the form of drying is proposed with all other processing to proposed to occur offsite. Power is provided by PGE and no generator use is proposed.
Attachments: 1. 13374 Staff Report 4.3.25, 2. Attachment 1 - 13374 Draft Resolution, 3. Attachment 1A - 13374 Conditions of Approval, 4. Attachment 1B - 13374 Operations Plan, 5. Attachment 1C - 13374 Site Plan, 6. Attachment 2 - 13374 Location Map, 7. Attachment 3 - 13374 CEQA Addendum, 8. Attachment 4 - 13374 Applicant's Evidence in Support of Findings, 9. Attachment 4A - 13374 Water Analysis, 10. Attachment 4B - 13374 Notice of Applicability, 11. Attachment 4C - 13374 Site Management Plan, 12. Attachment 4D - 13374 Road Maintenance Agreement, 13. Attachment 4E - 13374 Lake or Streambed Alteration Agreement, 14. Attachment 5A to 5D - 13374 Referral Agency Comments, 15. Attachment 6 - 13374 Watershed Map
To: Planning Commission

From: Planning and Building Department

Agenda Section: Consent

SUBJECT:
title
Finmark Farms, LLC Conditional Use Permit
Assessor's Parcel Numbers: 218-051-008
Record Numbers: PLN-13374-CUP
New Harris Area

A Conditional Use Permit for 30,000 square feet of existing outdoor commercial cannabis cultivation with supported by a 3,000 square foot ancillary nursery. Estimated annual water usage is 276,840 gallons sourced from two rainwater catchment ponds. One pond is located onsite and the other is located on APN 218-081-003. Total water storage consists of the onsite 350,000-gallon pond and the 2,000,000-gallon pond on APN 218-081-003 as well as 40,500 gallons of onsite tanks. Onsite processing in the form of drying is proposed with all other processing to proposed to occur offsite. 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, 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 in the New Harris area, on the east side of Island Mountain Road, approximately at the intersection of Island Mountain Road and Hogtrap Road, on the property known to be in Township 05S of Range 05E Section 10 Humboldt Base and Meridian also known as 2142 Island Mountain Rd, New Harris, CA 95542.

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

Present Zoning:...

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