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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding Cannabis Amendments to the Santa Barbara County Uniform Rules for Agricultural Preserves and Farmland Security Zones, as follows: (EST. TIME: 2 HR.)
a) Consider options for amending the Santa Barbara County Uniform Rules for Agricultural Preserves and Farmland Security Zones (Uniform Rules) to address cannabis uses and development allowed pursuant to the Cannabis Land Use Ordinance and Licensing Program on lands subject to agricultural preserve contracts;
b) Make the required findings for approval of amendments to the Uniform Rules, including California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) findings;
c) Adopt a Resolution (Case No. 17ORD-00000-00019) amending the Uniform Rules; and
d) Determine for the purposes of CEQA that:
i) Approval of the amendments to the Uniform Rules (Case No. 17ORD-00000-00019) is 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
ii) 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; ii) no substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the Ordinance is undertaken which require major revisions of the PEIR; and iii) no new information of substantial importance concerning the Ordinance’s significant effects or mitigation measures, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time that the PEIR was certified, has been received.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY