A large cannabis farm proposed near San Miguel overcame a neighbor's appeal on Feb. 9—earning a 3-2 vote of support from the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors—but words exchanged during the hours-long hearing indicated a lawsuit may be coming next.
SLO County supervisors narrowly denied Kenneth Cottrell and Stephanie Shakofsky's appeal of the 3-acre outdoor grow slated for a 66-acre property on River Road, which will also have indoor cultivation, nurseries, and a non-storefront dispensary on site.
The vote granted a win to the applicant, Natural Healing Center, a prominent local cannabis brand that spent three years in the county's permit pipeline and whose founder, Helios Dayspring, is in the throes of a courtroom war with his investor.
In objecting to the project, Cottrell, a neighbor to the grow, and Shakofsky, a local cannabis watchdog and recent candidate for 1st District supervisor, argued that officials did not adequately analyze the project's environmental impacts, including water use, odor drift, and noise and light pollution.
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