Title
Pacific Madrone Timber, LLC: Special Permit (2)
Record Number PLN-12203-SP (filed 12/21/2016)
Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN) 524-153-001 & 524-153-002
Burnt Ranch/Willow Creek Area
A Special Permit for 6,713 sq. ft. of pre-existing outdoor cannabis cultivation. Water is sourced from a rain catchment pond and from a stream diversion under Water Right Certificate H100228. A Special Permit is being requested to approve the continued use and maintenance of a stream diversion within a streamside management area. Anticipated annual water usage is 133,350 gallons. Existing water storage includes one (1) 180,000-gallon rain catchment pond, and two (2) 1,500-gallon hard water tanks, for a total of 183,000 gallons of water storage. The applicant is requesting a setback reduction for cultivation areas within 150-feet of a perennial wetland on-site, and proposes to relocate all cultivation within 100 feet of the wetland to outside of 150 feet. Consultation with CDFW has been conducted for the setback reduction request, and a recommendation of conditional approval was received. An additional Special Permit is being requested to reduce the 600-foot setback to Public Lands (SRNF). The farm is owner-operated and no employees are used. Processing will occur within the processing building on-site.
Recommendation
Adopt the resolution to take the following actions: 1) Find that the Zoning Administrator has considered the Addendum to the adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Commercial Medical Marijuana Land Use Ordinance (CMMLUO) as described by Section §15164 of the State CEQA Guidelines 2) make all of the required findings for approval of the Special Permits and 3) adopt the Resolution approving the Pacific Madrone Timber, LLC Special Permits subject to the recommended conditions.