Title
Rayl Dairy, Coastal Development Permit
Record Number PLN-15595-CDP
Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN) 100-301-007, 100-301-001, 100-301-002
35 Damon Lane, 54 Damon Lane, and 480 Meridian Road, Ferndale area
Project Description: A Coastal Development Permit application to facilitate construction of two (2) pole barns on a dairy farm that are intended to improve water quality and soil health. The barns would be located over existing uncovered concrete cow feeding areas and Barn “A” would be 7,500 square feet (SF) (30’ x 250’), and Barn “B” would be 1,914 SF (12’ x 87’), both with a maximum height of 20’. Posts would be utilized to support the roof structures and there would be no enclosed walls. Minimal ground disturbance would be required. No utilities would be provided. The design the barns was overseen by the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS).
The 2017 National Wetland Inventory (NWI) Version 2 Mapping identifies areas outside of the developed dairy operation as palustrine emergent wetland. However, described in the metadata published by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the NWI layer is intended to be used for regional and watershed data display and analysis, not for project level data analysis. The barn would be located over presently disturbed hardscaped areas (concrete) and for this reason will not negatively impact the wetland or its function.
Recommendation
Find the project exempt from environmental review pursuant to Section 15311 of the State CEQA Guidelines, make all of the required findings for approval of the Coastal Development Permit, based on evidence in the staff report, and adopt the Resolution approving the Rayl Dairy project subject to the recommended conditions.