Santa Barbara County staff are recommending the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday give seven Carpinteria cannabis farms more time to install carbon filtration systems that help "scrub" the smell of cannabis out of the air.
County staff are also recommending the supervisors deny a time extension request from Valley Crest Farms, a 9-acre farm at 5980 Casitas Pass Road, stating the operators "waited to begin compliance efforts."
The supervisors will review the eight one-time extension requests at their Tuesday meeting in Santa Maria. All of those eight farms applied for time extensions by the deadline.
The supervisors last March set a one-year deadline of March 18, 2026, for all indoor county cannabis operators to update odor abatement plans, as well as install and operate the carbon filtration systems or equivalent equipment.
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