More than $10 million to tackle illegal marijuana farms, short-term rental abuses, snow-play nuisances, and other concerns will be in the 2021-22 county budget.
Third District Supervisor Dawn Rowe, who represents the Morongo Basin Rowe, said, “This budget proposal is a significant step towards providing a solution to outlying desert and mountain communities that have been overwhelmed by tourism and overrun by illegal marijuana farms.”
Spurred by Proposition 64, which reduced illegal cannabis cultivation to a misdemeanor offense, the number of illegal marijuana farms in the county has exploded. Despite efforts by county code enforcement and Sheriff’s Department personnel to shut down these sites, they continue to increase at a rate that outpaces available resources.
San Bernardino County to consider program for home kitchens
Supervisors vote unanimously for staff to bring back a plan for approval
Victorville Daily Press
San Bernardino County will consider participating in a pilot program that will allow residents to cook and sell food out of their homes.
The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday for staff to bring a program back to the supervisors for approval that would allow microenterprise home kitchen operations, or MEKHOs, to operate temporarily to test potential impacts. County staff has three months to complete the task.
Under two state bills that went into effect in 2019, a county, or similar jurisdiction with a health department, can choose whether to opt in to the MEKHO program.