To: The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors
From: Planning and Building Department
Agenda Section: Time Certain Matter
SUBJECT:
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1:30 p.m. - Appeal of the Planning Commission actions to Approve the Arcata Land Company, LLC, Conditional Use Permit and to Adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration to allow for commercial cannabis cultivation. The application is for the operation of a combination of outdoor light-deprivation cultivation (2.3 acres) and mixed-light cultivation (5.7 acres) in new enclosed gutter-connected greenhouses, and 30,000 square feet of existing hoop houses dedicated to ancillary propagation activities on APNs 506-231-021 and 505-151-011 (one separate legal parcel). The Project will also include ancillary support features, such as an administrative building, propagation and office building, utility building, new onsite wastewater treatment system, unpaved parking areas, security fencing, and storm water management features (e.g., retention basins).
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors adopt the attached resolution to do the following:
1. Adopt Findings relative to CEQA Compliance and findings to support denial of the appeal and approval of the Conditional Use Permit; and
2. Adopt the Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration, State Clearinghouse No. 2021010337; and
3. Specifies the custodian of the record of proceedings upon which the decision is based is the Planning Department, located at 3015 H Street, Eureka, California; and
4. Denies the Appeal submitted by James Cotton, Kim Puckett, Paula Proctor, Michael Proctor, Joan Edwards, Lee Torrence, Rebecca Crow, Carol McFarland, Don Nielsen, Terrence McNally, Kerry McNally, Tamara Spivey, Mona Mazzotti, Abraham Moshekh, Duane E Smith, Pamela J Smith, Victor Howard, Lydia Butyrin, Lisa Pelletier, Kathryn Melia, Julie Hochfeld, Nancy Blinn, Warren Blinn, Peggy Bell-Hans, Todd Casebolt, Deni Devine, Jose Mendoca and Leonor Mendoca; and
5. Appr...
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