Neighbor Sues Napa County Over Napa Valley Winery Approval winebusiness.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from winebusiness.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The long saga of the Mountain Peak application for a new 100,000-gallon winery with 14,500 annual visitors including mega-events at the end of the densely forested, 6.5-mile-long, dead-end Soda Canyon Road, a non-conforming Napa County Standards Road, was approved on May 18, 2021.
It was a second review of one previously approved by the supervisors just before the 2017 Atlas Peak fire. This review ordered by the Napa County Superior Court asked the supervisors to consider the effects of these fires which destroyed 134 of the 163 homes in the immediate area and claimed lives.
In granting their second approval, the supervisors determined that the fires provided no data compelling them to change their minds in spite of testimony after testimony by residents who could not escape because the single, flame-engulfed escape route was blocked by fallen trees while many more were airlifted by helicopters because they were trapped. If this were not enough, they disregarded the 1-mile-long lim
An Open letter to the Board of Supervisors: Many of us continue to be shocked by your focus, never more apparent than in the recent upholding of several appeals of Anthem Winery s permitting.
Questions are hanging in the air around all of us. As the self-appointed Groundwater Sustainability Agency for our county, why do you continue to permit development in water-deficient areas? The extent of the projectâs commercialization of a quiet, agricultural neighborhood has already impacted all of us neighbors around Anthem as Anthem drilled and pumps six of at least eight wells, three of these deemed project wells.
Napa s prestigious Staglin winery says it needs more visitors to succeed Its wealthy neighbors are fighting back sfchronicle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfchronicle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.