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Commission recommends broadening microbusiness rules to allow more on‑farm processing and nonvolatile manufacturing
Summary
Planning staff proposed amendments to the county’s commercial cannabis microbusiness rules to allow more vertical integration for cultivators, with restrictions in TPZ and floodplain zones; the commission recommended the changes to the Board of Supervisors.
Humboldt County planning staff told the Planning Commission that amendments to the commercial cannabis microbusiness standards would make it easier for cultivators to add certain processing and nonvolatile manufacturing activities on farm, within limits intended to keep operations consistent with the county’s environmental review and road‑safety mitigation.
Planner Augustus Grama said microbusinesses are ‘‘composite’’ uses combining cultivation, distribution, nonvolatile manufacturing and retail, limited to less than 10,000 square feet. Key proposed changes: allow microbusiness permits to proceed by zoning clearance certificate (ZCC) when the highest required permit for the proposed uses is a ZCC (instead of…
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