Title
Honeydew Valley Farms LLC Conditional Use Permit
Case Numbers CUP 16-548, CUP 16-546 and CUP 16-545
Assessor’s Parcel Numbers (APNs) 107-086-024 and 107-091-001
Honeydew area
Three Conditional Use Permits (CUPs) for 1 acre each for a total of three acres (130,680 square feet (sf)) of new outdoor commercial medical cannabis cultivation on approximately 319 acres. Of the total cultivation 43,200 sf will be in greenhouses with the remaining 87,480 sf grown outdoors. All cultivation will be entirely without supplemental lighting. A new 1.5-million-gallon rainwater catchment pond is proposed to provide irrigation for the cultivation operations. A new 3,200-foot water line will be constructed from the pond to the cultivation area with a submergible water pump to distribute water for irrigation. Estimated water usage per year will be approximately 1,025,000 gallons, and the applicants will forebear from any surface water diversions from May 15th to October 31st. Processing is proposed to occur on-site in a proposed ADA-compliant processing facility to be constructed in 2017. Power is supplied by Pacific Gas and Electric to the processing facility, while two generators will be utilized to power greenhouse fans at the cultivation site.
Recommendation
Find the project exempt from environmental review pursuant to Sections 15301, 15303, and 15304 of the State CEQA Guidelines, make all of the required findings for approval of the Conditional Use Permits based on evidence in the staff report and any public testimony, and adopt the Resolutions approving the proposed Honeydew Valley Farms LLC Conditional Use Permits subject to the recommended conditions.