Board delays final decision on Copper Hill batch-plant permit after lengthy appeal and straw vote to reverse revocation

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors did not issue a final ruling on an appeal of a revocation of Use Permit UPE 70112 for a concrete batch plant at 3660 Copper Hill Lane. County staff recommended denying the operator’s appeal and upholding a March 28 Board of Zoning Adjustments (BZA) decision to revoke the permit for long‑running noncompliance; the board instead made a nonbinding straw motion to reverse the BZA revocation and continued the item to Feb. 11 so staff can prepare a resolution reflecting the board’s direction.

The dispute centers on a 1.24‑acre approved project area historically used for a concrete batch plant and associated mobile office and truck storage. Staff’s report summarized a decade of code‑enforcement history, including recorded notices of violation beginning in 2011; it stated that pre‑operational conditions of approval were never fully satisfied and that the BZA found ongoing violations and a public-nuisance condition warranting revocation. Staff recommended the board deny the operator’s appeal and characterized the revocation as an enforcement action exempt from CEQA.

The permit holder, Farrow Ready Mix, and its counsel argued the county repeatedly…