TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Brian D. Bordona, Director of Planning, Building and Environmental Services
REPORT BY: Michael Parker, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Benjamin Ranch Winery Appeal P21-00151-APL
RECOMMENDATION
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PUBLIC HEARING 2:00 PM - Benjamin Ranch Appeal (P21-00151-APL)
Conduct a public hearing to consider adoption of revised conditions of approval mutually agreed upon by Michael Honig/ Keep Rutherford Rural (Appellant) and Frank Family Vineyards, LLC, acquired by Treasury Wine Estates Americas Company (Applicant) to resolve the appeal filed by the Appellant concerning the Napa County Planning Commission's approval of Benjamin Ranch Winery's Use Permit Application No. P13-00371. (No Fiscal Impact; Mandatory)
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BACKGROUND
The matter before the Board involves a joint request by the Appellant and Applicant to resolve the appeal by adopting additional conditions of approval on Benjamin Ranch Winery's Use Permit Application No. P13-00371.
The project consists of a new winery, visitor's center with accessory uses including administrative offices, wine tasting rooms, a commercial kitchen for preparation of meals for winery staff, a wine marketing program, by appointment tours and tastings, retail sale of wine and wine-related items, along with allowance for on-site consumption of wine purchased on premises pursuant to Business and Professions Code Sections 23358, 23390, and 23396.5, and full-time and part-time employees. The proposed project includes demolition of an existing shed currently used for vineyard management, on-site relocation of an existing storage barn, and a new access driveway from Conn Creek Road/State Route 128 (See below for further details regarding the winery approved by the Planning Commission).
The winery is located on 9.8-acres of an approximately 64?-acre site at 8895 Conn Creek Road, St. Helena, in the Agricultural Preserve Zoning District and has a General Plan land use designation of Agricultural Resource.
On June 16...
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