Title
Northern Nights Music Festival and One-Day Event Modification to the Conditional Use Permit for 2017
Case Numbers CUP-04-38MMMMM and MON 17-001
Assessor Parcel Number 033-271-007
240 Cooks Valley Road, Benbow area
The project is a Modification of Conditional Use Permit CUP-04-38MMMM on County Line Ranch for the outdoor music and art event known as Northern Nights Music Festival (NNMF) on the third weekend of July 2017. The project involves auxiliary activities in support of the NNMF which is held on adjacent parcels in Mendocino County (APN 053-020-10, -11, -12,-13, -14 and -16). The Applicants are currently seeking approval for a 6,000 person three-day event by Mendocino County (CUP UM 2014-0011). The applicants propose to continue the modifications approved by the Planning Commission in 2016 (CUP-04-38MMMM) to allow supplemental parking and camping to accommodate 2,000 attendees and 2,000 vehicles, food vendors, a silent disco, and to provide site access for early arrivals on the Thursday preceding the event. The applicant also seeks the flexibility to have the one-day concert on either Labor Day or the Fourth of July weekends and set the attendance of the one-day concert to 2,000 people. The term of the existing permit was set to expire in 2016 and this modification will extend the validity of the CUP for four years, through the year 2020. The applicant submitted a monitoring report for the 2016 event demonstrating continued compliance with conditions of approval. The project proponent and applicant is Northern Nights Music Group, LLC. The owner of record for County Line Ranch is Outraged Orangutan, LLC.
Recommendation
Move to adopt the Addendum pursuant to Section 15164 of the State CEQA Guidelines and make all of the required findings for approval of the Conditional Use Permit Modification, based on evidence in the staff report, and approve the application on the Consent Agenda subject to the recommended conditions.