Let’s Take a Closer Look at the Sun Valley Weed Grow and How the Supervisors Reached a Decision
Map showing the site of Sun Valley Group’s planned cannabis farm in the Arcata Bottoms. | Image via County of Humboldt
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We offered a cursory recap of yesterday’s meeting in the post linked above, but let’s take a closer look at the details of the 5.7-acre cannabis cultivation project that the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors approved on Tuesday and also at the circuitous and sometimes confused decision-making process that got them there.
At the outset, Planning and Building Director John Ford reminded the board where they’d left off back on June 22 namely, asking staff to investigate the effectiveness of the patented odor-control technology proposed for use in Arcata Land Co.’s weed farm. The smell of growing cannabis has been one of the major concerns among neighbors of the property, which is owned by the Sun Valley Group and located in the Arcata Bottoms.
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Existing greenhouses at Sun Valley Floral Farms in Arcata. | Photo by Andrew Goff.
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After more than 50 years growing irises, tulips and lilies in the fertile farmland of the Arcata Bottoms, the owners of Sun Valley Floral Farms are preparing to leap headlong into the commercial cannabis industry with the construction of a 23-acre hoop house operation that would rank among the largest legal weed grows in North America.
The plans laid out in a 95-page initial study, published in December, call for 193 temperature-controlled hoop house-style greenhouses spread over 1 million square feet (22.96 acres), plus office/administration buildings, a propagation facility, stormwater detention basins, a new wastewater treatment system and a 66-space asphalt/concrete parking lot.