Santa Barbara County Planning and Development Department staff will look into a different method of calculating the number of units required for rezoning in the Housing Element update to meet
Cannabis tax income continues to climb in Santa Barbara County, with revenue hitting $4.2 million in the first quarter of the 2020-21 fiscal year, a 50% increase from the $2.8 million reported from the first quarter of 2019-20, according to a report to the Board of Supervisors.
The county is reviewing 23 applications for retail storefront licenses from six community plan areas, and nine of the 12 cultivators that were operating in existing developed rural neighborhoods have shut down after supervisors approved an ordinance amendment banning them from those areas, according to the report.
Enforcement operations are eliminating the large illegal cultivation operations, the report said, but more needs to be done to address small illegal operations.