Cohen (Howell at the Moon) Vineyard Conversion

Cohen (Howell at the Moon) Vineyard Conversion

Approval of a Use Permit to establish a new 20,00 gallon per year winery for: 1) the conversion of an existing 1,955 square foot structure to be utilized for fermentation, barrel storage, bottling, retail sales and laboratories and the conversion of an existing 140 square foot shed to be utilized for an office building and administration offices for a winery totaling 2,095 square feet; 2) the conversion of an existing 400 square foot covered carport to be utilized as a crush pad; 3) custom crushing activities (crushing, fermentation, barrel aging and bottling) for up to four custom producers utilizing 50% (10,000 gallons per year) of the total approved winery production capacity; 4) two full and/or part time employees and two additional employees at harvest; 5) five parking spaces; 6) no tours or tasting; 7) a marketing plan for members of the wine trade consisting of: two private wine and food tasting events for the trade with a maximum of 15 people; two private wine and food tasting events by invitation only with a maximum of 25 people, and one private harvest event with a maximum of 50 people (events will occur on the weekends, school holidays, and other non-school days for PUC and no events shall occur at the same time); 8) expansion of the existing leach field; 9) a new 20-foot driveway approximately 1000 feet in length to serve the winery; and 10) necessary related actions that include administrative approval of an erosion control plan for conversion to vineyard of up to 2.96 acres of existing moderately sloping (7 to 17%) pine forest/oak woodland/grassland. Erosion control plan (#02263-ECPA) has been prepared for this vineyard and it includes water bars for vehicular traffic, straw bale dikes, turf reinforcement mats and a premature cover crop.

St. Helena

Napa

Cal Fire, California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Caltrans, Division of Aeronautics, Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency

Office (Sq. Ft. 140), Industrial (Sq. Ft. 1955, Acres 20.36, Employees 2FT & 2PT), Other

Use Permit, Vineyard Development

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Drainage/Absorption, Geology/Soils, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Noise, Septic System, Transportation, Vegetation, Wildfire, Wildlife