A cannabis cultivation business already in operation west of Buellton appears headed for approval by the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission, which continued a public hearing to Dec. 2 to provide time to tweak the proposed odor control plan.
Commissioners unanimously agreed to delay a decision on Central Coast Agriculture’s application for a major conditional use permit and a development plan to cultivate 30 acres of cannabis on a 68-acre parcel at 8701 Santa Rosa Road.
Mature plants would be grown for harvest and nursery operations would be conducted in hoop houses, outdoors, in a greenhouse and in an existing agricultural building, according to a staff report from the Planning and Development Department.
The proposed project includes 57 storage containers — of which 42 would be removed in three years — plus a new shade structure, security building, storage addition, fencing, lighting, landscaping and an odor abatement system.
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