SCH Number 2020060431

Project Info

Title

UP 23-08 Wellness Ranch 3

Description

The applicant, Wellness Ranch, LLC/Luis Martinez is proposing a Major Use Permit for expansion of the existing cannabis cultivation farm site consisting of two stages of development. Stage I includes the proposed addition of three-acres of outdoor cannabis canopy area, construction of a new 2,500 square foot (sf) structure for 2,400 sf of indoor cannabis canopy, and the use of seven (7) temporary 10’x40’ shipping containers for on-site grown cannabis processing. Stage II includes the construction of a new 2,500 sf ADA compliant processing facility that will be an in-kind replacement of the temporary processing shipping containers. There have been two Minor Use Permits previously approved by the County of Lake on the subject site. The original application (Minor Use Permit MUP 19-15) approved 10,000 sf of outdoor cannabis canopy within a 13,000 sf cultivation area. The second Minor Use Permit MUP 22-11 added an additional 10,000 sf of outdoor canopy area and 2,400 sf of indoor cultivation inside the existing barn building. For clarification purposes, the existing onsite permitted cultivation includes a total of 20,000 square feet (SF) of outdoor cultivation and 2,400 SF of indoor cultivation. Staff has evaluated this project expansion proposal as well as the previously approved two projects identified as MUP 19-15 approved in 2020 and MUP 22-11 approved in 2023; and has determined that the project now qualifies for a Major Use Permit review, and that the impacts from all three permits must be evaluated under CEQA evaluation requirements.

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