Del Norte County’s first commercial cannabis cultivation and manufacturing operation will find a home in the former Triplicate printing plant in Smith River.
County supervisors on Tuesday overruled a December decision of the Del Norte County Planning Commission to deny a use permit to Jeremy Rodriguez, of Moving North LLC. District 5 Supervisor Bob Berkowitz was absent.
Rodriguez plans to cultivate commercial cannabis in a 5,000 square-foot space of the 9,600 square-foot building at 205 Timber Boulevard. The operation will include a nursery and space for immature plants, a storage area for harvested plants to be dried and a processing room, according to a staff report prepared by county planner Taylor Carsley.
On Tuesday, Carsley told supervisors that Rodriguez’s use permit application complied with cannabis regulations the county adopted in 2019. After touring the facility, Environmental Review Committee staff recommended the Planning Commission approve a use permit. Planning commissioners, however, were concerned that Rodriguez’s plans didn’t include building a security fence around the facility.
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