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Supervisors ask staff to study limited changes to cannabis rules: indoor cultivation, netting and watershed reopening
Summary
After public testimony from growers and residents, the board directed staff to pursue performance standards for monofilament netting, consider allowing indoor cultivation in newer permitted buildings with renewable power, and investigate whether impacted watersheds could be reopened for limited expansion.
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 6 directed planning staff to return with analyses and potential ordinance changes addressing three cannabis-related requests: limited hemp cultivation, indoor cultivation in buildings permitted after 2016, and performance standards for monofilament netting.
Planning Director John Ford summarized the requests. He recommended against immediately lifting the county moratorium on hemp because enforcement and testing to distinguish hemp from high-THC cannabis would require additional Ag Commissioner and law-enforcement resources. He did, however, recommend the county pursue performance standards for monofilament…
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