Edhat Staff
Illegal cannabis farm on Cebada Canyon Road (Photo: SBSO)
By edhat staff
The City of Buellton passed a resolution on Thursday requesting the Board of Supervisors to take action to regulate commercial cannabis cultivation in the Santa Ynez Valley.
The resolution stated Buellton representatives have previously expressed deep concerns regarding the “potential impacts and unintended consequences of permitting commercial cannabis cultivation in the Santa Ynez Valley, particularly in close proximity to the City’s jurisdictional boundaries, including noxious odors, commercial traffic, water, lighting, public safety, incompatibility of uses, crime, and the potential for other serious public health, safety and welfare issues.”
The City of Buellton stated the current commercial cannabis regulatory program is inadequate to prevent proliferation and overconcentration of commercial cannabis cultivation operations in the County and particularly in the Santa Ynez Valley.
It was cited that the cities of Carpinteria, Goleta, and Solvang had adopted similar resolutions expressing concerns of a detrimental impact on tourism and economic activity for some businesses, and potentially threatening the long-term viability of other established open-field agricultural crops.
The City Council stated they are committed to working with the County Board of Supervisors to help craft amendments to the County’s cannabis regulations to address the aforementioned unintended consequences.
The full resolution can be found here.
You go Buellton; protect your population and your surroundings. Don’t let your valley be taken over like Carpinteria’s has
You can thank Das Williams and Gregg Hart for this. What a cluster.
Any crop that is grown will have traffic from labor workers, this is not exclusive to cannabis. ‘Thousands of acres of Corporate Pot Fields’ is a total fabrication, i believe you need at least two of something to pluralize a word. If you research online(there is a ton of info), Santa Barbara County has set a cap of 1,575 total acres of cannabis that can be cultivated, out of 107,516 total acres of SB county Ag land. Of that 1575, only 140 acres has made it through the LUP process(info available on county’s website). If this is your idea of a ‘nightmare’ i’d love to trade lives with you, lol.
Meanwhile the alcohol and gambling lobby grins in the shadows
DBD, you can’t be serious…? Are you saying there are no “noxious odors” associated with outdoor pot grows…???
You are obviously a grower/proponent who has a monitary stake in the pot business, after all, it’s ALL ABOUT THE MONEY…
I think between the casino, thousands of acres of grapes and livestock the valley feels it’s maxed out??? But lets blame it on the new guys in town, lol.
“including noxious odors, commercial traffic, water, lighting, public safety, incompatibility of uses, crime, and the potential for other serious public health, safety and welfare issues”
Pot is having a terrible affect on the North County- Rual roads like Santa Rosa Rd now have heavy traffic due to all the labor workers, the thousands of acres of Corporate Pot Fields are totally stinking up the environment…. This entire pot industry is a nightmare. Now Foxen Canyon is getting a Corporate pot farm as well, between Rancho Sisquoc Winery and Foxen Canyon- Sad.
We drove from LA to SB last Wednesday night. Highway 101 construction caused us to detour via Carpinteria Ave. The entire length of Carp Ave right through the commercial and residential areas smelled like weed, not just a faint odor, but a good hefty stench, a vast and malodorous cloud. How exactly is this good for the community? If the county of SB needs money that badly why not build a big tire factory or a pulp mill?
I used to work in the North County and could barely breathe when broccoli or whatever vegetable smells like rotting sulfur permeated the air half the time. I’m surprised people living there are complaining about weed. I thought they were all nose blind like my boss and other coworkers who lived there were.
To LINA24: I’ve noticed the smell when I drive through Carp. It would really influence my life in a negative way were Buellton begin to smell that way. It’s where I’ve lived a simple uncomplicated life for over 30 years, but having a noxious smell would make me want to move away. I remember the smell of sugar beets in parts of Santa Maria; it was very annoying. I am pro-cannabis in every way, although I don’t smoke or ingest it myself, but the unexpected consequence of a strong odor would really be unfortunate, I think, for all of us.