The five appointed members of Calaveras County’s planning commission spent most of Thursday hashing out details of a new law regulating cannabis cultivation and commerce, a step in a multi-year process as this rural foothills county of 45,000 continues wrestling with its most divisive issue.
Specifics the commissioners confronted between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. included setbacks, canopies, odors, parcel-sizes, greenhouse emissions offsets, generators, and scores of other details contained in a 131-page staff report that included a four-page resolution, an 11-page addendum to a certified environmental impact report, a 40-page draft cannabis cultivation ordinance, staff-recommended changes to the draft, and 12 pages of text dealing with comments by Tim Laddish, District 2 commissioner.
By 4 p.m. the commissioners were still talking. Thursday was a continuation of a planning commission meeting in August.
People on both sides of the issue, pro-ban and pro-pot, came to listen, watch, take notes and chat during breaks from the planning commission meeting, which was held in the same former courtroom where the county board of supervisors meet.
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