A proposal to change the operating hours of a Carpinteria cannabis facility failed to gain the support of the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission on Wednesday after backlash from neighborhood residents.
The Planning Commission met in Santa Barbara, where it heard an appeal to a proposal to change the operating hours at Valley Crest Farms, located at 5980 Casitas Pass Road.
The owners of the site, which grows and processes cannabis, applied to change its hours from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. to a 24-hour operation. The change would have allowed the site to operate in three shifts of 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. County staff reviewed the project and found it did not violate any county ordinances. They also recommended that the commission approve it.
Residents who live near the farm criticized the proposal, saying that it did not fit the neighborhood. Tim Bliss, who filed the appeal to the change, told the commission that his family has been farming in the Carpinteria Valley for more than 100 years, and many of them still live on the property.
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