Clearlake planning commission approves commercial cannabis project at 2250 Oglund Canyon Drive despite resident water concerns

The Clearlake Planning Commission voted to approve multiple conditional use permits and to recommend a mitigated negative declaration and development agreement for a commercial cannabis operation at 2250 Oglund Canyon Drive (APN 01004419).

John Lane, a California state professional geologist retained by the applicant, presented a groundwater hydrology addendum that revised site water‑use estimates downward from an initial 511,400 gallons per year to 366,385 gallons per year for full build‑out and 227,660 gallons per year if only 10,000 square feet of cultivation is developed. Lane noted the Burns Valley groundwater basin (referred to in the report as Berne/Burns Valley) has an estimated usable storage capacity of about 1,400 acre‑feet and that the subject site alone would represent roughly 0.07% of that usable storage. "Due to the decrease in…