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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding amending Chapter 50 of the County Code - Licensing of Cannabis Operations, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.)
a) Consider the introduction (First Reading) of an Ordinance amending Chapter 50 of the Santa Barbara County Code, Licensing of Cannabis Operations amending the existing odor abatement requirements for cultivation, processing, and manufacturing facilities to require the use of multi-technology carbon filtration or equivalent odor control systems;
b) Read the title and waive further reading of the Ordinance in full; and
c) Set a hearing on the Administrative Agenda of April 1, 2025 to consider recommendations, as follows:
i) Consider the adoption (Second Reading) of an amending Chapter 50 to the Santa Barbara County Code, Licensing of Cannabis Operations amending the existing odor abatement requirements for cultivation, processing, and manufacturing facilities to require the use of multi-technology carbon filtration or equivalent odor control systems; and
ii) Determine for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that:
1) Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15168(c) these actions are within the scope of the Cannabis Land Use Ordinance and Licensing Program, and the Cannabis Land Use Ordinance and Licensing Program Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) [Case No. 17EIR-00000-00003, State Clearinghouse No. 2017071016] adequately describes this activity for the purposes of CEQA; and
2) Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15162(a), after considering the PEIR certified by the Board of Supervisors on February 6, 2018, that no subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration is required because: i) no substantial changes are proposed which require major revisions of the PEIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental impacts or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; ii) no substantial changes have occurred with respect to ...
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