As the times and market conditions change for cannabis farmers, so do Humboldt County's permitting rules, with the Planning Commission approving new allowances for small-scale operations. Changes to the county's cannabis ordinance designed to allow "microbusinesses" to broaden their activities were approved at the commission's Sept. 18 meeting.
The changes redefine a "microbusiness" as a "composite use" including non-volatile manufacturing, distribution and retail sales.
Those would have to be related to cannabis cultivation of less than 10,000 square feet. County Planner Augustus Grochau said the changes respond to "outpouring of public comments lamenting economic difficulties among cannabis cultivators."
Third parties hired for distribution, manufacturing and retail marketing are "overcharging for services and/or not fulfilling contracts," he continued, which the Board of Supervisors recognized. So the changes were directed and they'll help cultivators add manufacturing and retail sales to their cultivation permits without requiring a more complex and costly special permit.
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