How to resolve AdBlock issue? LAKEPORT, Calif. — The Lake County Planning Commission is set this week to discuss a new event permit, a cannabis operation and an appeal of a denial of a temporary dwelling permit.
The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
The agenda is here.
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At 9:05 a.m., the commission will hold a public hearing to consider a major use permit to allow events, including serving food and wine, at 3210 and 3280 Big Valley Road, Kelseyville.
The applicant is Mara Mehlman, whose project, “Harmony,” will feature farm-to-table dining and fine wine events.
Mehlman brings experience in the hospitality industry to the project. She and her partner, Jevgenija Saromova, a professional chef, previously owned the Lincoln Inn & Restaurant at the Covered Bridge, in Woodstock, Vermont. They sold the Vermont property and moved to Lake County earlier this year.
Also on the agenda is a 9:20 a.m. public hearing to consider a major use permit for MIT Farms, as well as an initial study and mitigated negative declaration for approval of a commercial outdoor cannabis cultivation of up to 42,066 sf canopy at 22368 and 22430 Jerusalem Grade, Middletown.
At 9:35 a.m., the commission will hold a public hearing to consider the administrative appeal of Scott Renkes, whose request for renewal of his temporary dwelling permit at 1800 New Long Valley Road in Clearlake Oaks, where he and his wife are building a new home, was denied by planning staff.
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