Arcata City Council discusses anti-homeless gates for businesses times-standard.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from times-standard.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The measure would not impact Arcata, which has its own permitting process for cannabis cultivation, but Community Development Director David Loya said he believed the measure, if passed, would impact the local manufacturing sector via downstream impacts to cultivators. Among establishing new rules around water use and surrounding infrastructure, the measure would ban new or expanded permits for mixed light and indoor grows and outdoor grows over 10,000 square feet, though nonconforming farms could remain so long as they do not expand.
City staff was in the process of creating an ordinance modeled after Berkeley’s passed in 2019 that banned gas infrastructure in new buildings, though the city was sued in 2020 by the California Real Restaurant Association, and a panel of three judges from the 9th Circuit sided with the latter.
Matthew in the Middle | Your vote matters times-standard.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from times-standard.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mad River Hospital wants less open space, more housing on new campus times-standard.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from times-standard.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.