Title
RBC Holdings, LLC Conditional Use Permit
Application Number: 10891
Case Number: CUP 16-749
Assessor’s Parcel Number: 522-044-047, 522-044-037
1008 M&W Road, Willow Creek area
A Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to allow 12,000 square feet of existing cultivation including 10,000 square feet of outdoor and 2,000 square feet of mixed-light. A Special Permit for after-the-fact development within a Stream Management Area for relocation and restoration activities. Plants are harvested and dried in the shop then machine trimmed outside and returned to the shop for curing. All processing is completed by the applicant and no employees are utilized. The applicant is seeking an off-site licensed processing facility for future use. Commercial access will be provided via M&W Ranch Road to Brannan Mountain Road to Highway 96 in Willow Creek. Water is currently sourced for irrigation from the applicant's water diversion from Anton Creek on the property. The applicant will abandon the diversion from Anton Creek and transition to a rainwater catchment system to supply water to the cultivation for future use. There is also a well on the property that is not used due to its low volumetric capacity. Total water storage is 120,000 gallons. The applicant completed relocation of a cultivation area away from an unnamed Class III watercourse in 2016 and full restoration will occur.
Recommendation
Find the project Categorically Exempt from environmental review pursuant to Section 15301 and 15333 of the State CEQA Guidelines, make all of the required findings for approval of the Conditional Use Permit based on evidence in the staff report and any public testimony, and adopt the Resolution approving the proposed RBC Holdings, LLC Conditional Use Permit subject to the recommended conditions.