Pillsbury Farms just north of Potter Valley will be issued a stop work order by the Lake County staff for constructing a greenhouse without a building permit, discovered in the course of an annual site inspection of a cannabis farm.
Operators of the Farm, John Evans, co-founder Justin Quayle, cultivation manager, and Skiel Laiwa, executive administrative assistant and a representative of the farm, were directed by the county Community Development Department to follow the order’s instruction after failing to obtain a permit prior to erecting the structure. “We expect them to come in to get a building permit,” Mireya Turner, community development director, said. “It was cited in their annual compliance monitoring site inspection.”
Turner noted that the inspection occurred on September 1 and the county wants to work with them to come into compliance. She assured the greenhouse was the only point of the inspection that was not in compliance, and it would not qualify for a high severity code. “As soon as Pillsbury brings in their building permits (state and county) and site plans, along with an application, including the elevation (what the outside looks like), we can bring them into compliance,” Turner added. “Sometimes, we can accept photographs to satisfy the elevation requirement.”
Violations included the greenhouse, which was partially caved in. The standard solution would be to demolish the structure. Turner emailed a copy of the stop work order. It requires Pillsbury Farms to abide by the corrective order within 30 days of receipt of the directive. Failure to comply allows an enforcement official to impose a penalty for each violation pursuant to the Lake County Code, Chapter 13-13.2b in an amount not to exceed $100 for each day the first violation occurs and continues, $200 for each day the second violation of the same provision of this chapter within one year after the first and continues and $500 for each day of an additional violation of the same provision of this chapter within one year after the first violation.
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