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Board revokes one cannabis permit, continues appeal for another with conditions including no new stream diversions
Summary
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors on Feb. 25 revoked one cannabis cultivation permit for failure to pay Measure S taxes and continued an appeal over a second site where county and state inspectors found an unauthorized creek diversion, ordering the latter to return on March 25 with compliance steps and imposing conditions including no new surface-water diversion for cannabis.
Humboldt County planning staff told the Board of Supervisors on Feb. 25 that two separate cannabis cultivation permits required formal action after regulatory enforcement and unresolved violations: one site’s permit was revoked for failure to pay Measure S taxes and related compliance failures, and a second permitholder appealed a proposed revocation after evidence of unauthorized creek diversion and other violations.
Revocation: Humboldt Emerald Triangle LLC. Planning Director John Ford explained the department recommended revoking the conditional use permit (PLN 11065) because the permittee failed to pay Measure S taxes and the permit remained a legal impediment to new, compliant uses at the site. The board voted 4-0 to approve staff’s recommendation to revoke the permit, clearing the site for a new application…
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