Yolo County supervisors deny Outdoor Properties’ Capay Valley cannabis-use permit appeal

The Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday denied an appeal by Outdoor Properties LLC seeking a cannabis land-use permit for a Capay Valley site, adopting staff findings that the applicant and property owner had repeatedly failed to meet county and state regulatory requirements.

Staff framed the decision as one about compliance, not only future promises. “To deny the cannabis abuse permit. The last slide. In closing, the cannabis the compliance history of both the property owner Loma West LLC and the licensee out of properties LLC demonstrate an inability to operate under the regulatory framework of the cannabis licensing ordinance, the cannabis land use ordinance, and state law,” staff presenter Jeff Anderson told the board during the hearing.

The board followed a recommendation from the planning commission, which had earlier voted to uphold staff’s initial recommendation to deny processing of the permit application. Deputy County Counsel Eric Macy explained the procedural posture: denying the permit now avoids the time and expense of a full permit and environmental review if staff and the planning commission conclude the application should not be approved.

Why it matters: the Capay Valley cannabis land-use rules limit the number of cultivation permits at eligible sites; county staff told the board that if the permit is denied the site would be removed from the list of locations eligible for future permits in the Capay Valley, effectively ending the applicant’s ability to…