- Elizabeth Larson
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Board of Supervisors to hold Thursday cannabis workshop
The workshop will take place beginning at 9 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
The meeting can be watched live on Channel 8 and online at https://countyoflake.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx. Accompanying board documents, the agenda and archived board meeting videos also are available at that link.
The staff report to the board from County Administrative Officer Carol Huchingson said that Thursday’s meeting will be the first in a series of workshops that are part of the board’s approved work plan to finalize recreational cannabis provisions in the county’s Article 72 “in a manner which is consistent with but not duplicative of state regulations.”
Huchingson said Thursday’s workshop will be divided into two one-hour blocks.
The first hour will include a report by county consultant Mark Lovelace. Huchingson said Lovelace will give an overview of state law and emergency regulations; approaches taken in other areas including California counties, cities and other states; and cannabis market projections.
During the second hour, Community Development Director Bob Massarelli will give a report on the draft local commercial cultivation ordinance “with a particular focus on certain decision points where Board direction is needed,” Huchingson said.
Huchingson said that at the close of the workshop’s second hour, the board will consider directing staff to return at the next regular supervisors’ meeting with a resolution of intent to send the commercial cultivation ordinance to the Lake County Planning Commission.
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