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2020
| Wed, Jan 15, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and documents 7A Accessory Dwelling Unit ordinance 7B Scarlett Winery New Use Permit [continued from 10/2/19] 30,000 gal/yr, 5025 vis/yr, 8 employees, 13 parking spaces, 25-89 trips/day County's Scarlett Winery page 1052 Ponti Rd [aproved 4-1, Cottrell no] 7C Shadybrook Estate Winery major mod [continued form 12/4/19] recognize, allow, increase permit. Recognize: 4 new existing buildings, existing patio, BBQ, bocce court, event garden, outdoor amplified sound system, 17 more parking spaces, 8 more employees. Increase: 40,000 more g/y, 11,366 more visitors/yr Plus recognition of major Equestrian Facility and events. 100 Rapp Lane, Napa [approved without requested visitation increases] 7D Rapp Equestrian Center Same owner and location as the Shadybrook Winery. More recognize and allow code violations. |
| Wed, Jan 22, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and documents 7A Caldwell Winery Major Mod [Remanded back to Planning Commission after Appeal to BOS on 3/12/19] Video and documents of 3/12/19 BOS Appeal Video and documents of 10/17/18 PC hearing County Caldwell page Use Permit modification for 10,000 more g/y, unbelievably complex (and unenforcible) tourism plan resulting in 6349 visitors/yr SCR on the Caldwell deliberation Napa Vision 2050 comments and visuals on the project. [approved 5-0 with many in process changes] 7B Paradox Winery Major Mod 200,000 more gal/yr, 23,252 more visitors/yr County's Paradox page [approved 5-0} 7C Oak Knoll Hotel FEIR presentation Hearing Notice County's Oak Knoll Hotel page Oak Knoll FEIR, comments, responses Oak Knoll DEIR [tentative certification of EIR 5-0] |
| Tue, Jan 28, 2020 9:00am | Board of SupervisorsAgenda and documents Joint BOS/Planning Commission meeting rescheduled for March 6H Proposed Adoption of Renewable Energy Systems Ordinance 9B Small winery use permit zoning ordinance revisions |
| Tue, Feb 4, 2020 6:30-8:00pm | Supervisor Candidate Environmental ForumCandidate Environmental Forum Location: Napa Main Library 580 Coombs St, Napa Co-hosted by Napa Vision 2050, Get a Grip on Growth, and Friends of Napa River |
| Tue, Feb 4, 2020 9:00am | Board of SupervisorsAgenda and documents 6G Adoption of Small Winery Streamlining Ordinance Ordinance to increase ease of winery approvals and increase winery tourism by administrative action. Winery Streamlining Ordinance SCR on Winery Fast-tracking 9D Bremer Winery Appeal [continued to 3/17/20 but "Appellant's counsel has declined to cooperate in scheduling the hearing."] SCR on Bremer 9E Accessory Dwelling Unit Ordinance Greenline ordinance 10A Changes in road and street standards Easing of road and street standards to facilitate winery fast-tracking with Winery Streamlining Ordinance. |
| Wed, Feb 5, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and documents 7A Anthem Winery Use Permit Neg Dec Notice County Anthem page SCR on Anthem [approved 5-0 with production and visitation reductions] |
| Fri, Feb 7, 2020 12 noon | Napa Watershed ForumWe manage what we measure: A Napa water forum sponsored by Growers and Vintners of Responsible Agriculture, Napa Vision 2050 and Water Audit California. Invitation |
| Tue, Feb 11, 2020 9:00am | Board of SupervisorsAgenda and documents 9C Hard Six Cellars appeal Appeal documents SCR on Hard Six project [Appeal Upheld 5-0, project denied!!] |
| Wed, Feb 19, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionSoscol Headwaters Park New Use Permit A use permit is needed of the Soscol Headwaters Park, created by the County Regional Park and Open Space District in 2015, on the eastern side of Wilderness Park to permit the construction of trails (and probably parking areas). Hearing notice [approved ] |
| Tue, Mar 3, 2020 | Voting Deadline!County Election Election deadline for mail in ballots. SCR on the 2020 election in Napa County. |
| Wed, Mar 4, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and documents 7A Final certification of Oak Knoll Hotel EIR 1/22/20 planning commission hearing agenda and documents [FEIR certified 3-0, Gallagher opposed, Hansen gone, with $1mil affordable housing fee as COA] |
| Tue, Mar 17, 2020 9:00am | Board of SupervisorsAgenda and documents 9A Bremer Winery Appeal SCR on Bremer |
| Tue, May 5, 2020 9:00am | Board of SupervisorsAgenda and Documents 9C Final denial of the Appeal to the Planning Commission's 10/16/19 allowance of Bremer Winery's illegal improvments 3/17/20 Appeal and intent to deny agenda and video 10/16/19 Planning Commission hearing agenda and video SCR on the Bremer Saga |
| Tue, May 19, 2020 9:00am | Board of SupervisorsAgenda and Documents 9F Appeal of the Anthem Winery Use Permit Approval [to be continued to 9/1/20] County's Anthem Winery Page SCR on the Anthem WInery 1:30pm: 9H The long promised Joint BOS/PC over the future development of Napa County This agenda item was added at the last minute in the midst of public-participation Covid constrictions. The input of residents impacted by continuing urbanization will no doubt be muted. The last joint meeting drew hundreds of citizens to the process, and a lengthly, though ultimately unfruitful, airing of concern over the pace of development in the county. How tourism and the wine industry will rebound from the Covid crisis is still unknown, but the people packing bars in Wisconsin and the pro-tourism legislation in Napa passed after the 2008 downturn indicate that tourism impacts will probably be a bigger issue after the virus than before. The direction toward more urban development projects -- hotels and winery tourism venues, housing, road and warehouse construction, deforestation for vineyard estates -- has solidified in the last years, and the battle to limit that development seems, unfortunately, to be more and more a lost cause. |
| Wed, May 20, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and Documents 7C Chappellet Winery Major Mod 100,000 more gal/yr, 21,960 more vis/yr, 12 more parking spaces, 6 more employees, road exception, 60 more trips/day on Sage Canyon Rd (already at LOS F) [approved 5-0] Scarlett Winery Appeal [to be continued] Mathew Bruno Tasting Room Appeal [to be continued] |
| Wed, Jun 17, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionMEETING CANCELLED (rescheduled for 7/1/20) Agenda and Documents 7A Bremer Winery Illegal improvements Remand After an appeal of the Planning Commission's approval of Bremer's illegal property improvements within a creek setback, the BOS returned the question of the building improvements, but not the landscape improvements, back to the Commission for further review. SCR on the Bremer Saga 8A Water Availability Analysis Workshop Comprehensive timeline on County's Water availability analysis efforts since 1963 SCR on Groundwater Sustainability Analysis |
| Tue, Jun 23, 2020 9:45am | Board of SupervisorsAppeal of the PC approval of the Mathew Bruno Tasting Room on Rutherford Rd (tentative) 5/5/20 BOS Agenda Letter with continuation 1/15/20 Planning Commission video and agenda [Appeal denied 5-0] |
| Wed, Jul 1, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and Documents 7A Bremer Winery Illegal improvements. Remand To be continued to July 15th After an appeal of the Planning Commission's approval of Bremer's illegal property improvements within a creek setback, the BOS returned the question of the building improvements, but not the landscape improvements, back to the Commission for further review. SCR on the Bremer Saga 7B Alta Napa Valley Vineyards Winery Use Permit 10,000 gal/yr, 3660 visitors/yr, 3 employees, varience to allow building 100' setback from Trail. A modest proposal that nontheless adds one more (solar collector-topped) box of a building, parking lot and tanks to he winery strip-mall that the Trail is becoming. (rendering here). 2125 Silverado Trail Hearing Notice County Alta Napa Valley page (no longer available) County current projects explorer SCR on the Alta Napa Valley Winery [approved 5-0] 8A Water Availability Analysis Workshop Comprehensive timeline on County's Water availability analysis efforts since 1963 SCR on Groundwater Sustainability Analysis |
| Tue, Jul 14, 2020 10:00am | Board of SupervisorsAppeal of PC approval of Scarlett WInery on Ponti Road [To be dropped and re-noticed for later date] 5/5/20 BOS Agenda Letter with continuation SCR on Scarlett 12/4/19 Planning Commission video and agenda |
| Wed, Jul 15, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and Documents 7B Bremer Winery Illegal improvements. Remand [Continued from July 1st, 2020] After an appeal of the Planning Commission's approval of Bremer's illegal property improvements within a creek setback, the BOS returned the question of the building improvements, but not the landscape improvements, back to the Commission for further review. SCR on the Bremer Saga 7D Nova Business Park South Parcel Map Another very prominent chunk of the green belt separatng Napa from the urban sprawl of the Bay Area gets filled in with industrial boxes. More here 7E Jamcan Tentative Parcel Map A major property subdivided into (albeit large) vineyard estates, prominently visible from Hwy29 north of American Canyon. |
| Tue, Jul 21, 2020 9:00am | Board of SupervisorsAgenda and Documents 10C Executive Officer requests guidance from the Board on several issues including: "Rule change allowing the Board to call up any planning commission item that was not formally appealed." "Review of Guenoc Valley proposal in Lake County and impact on Napa Couny." More Here |
| Wed, Aug 5, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommisssionAgenda and Documents 7A Rombauer Winery Recognize-Allow-Expand Major Mod recognize 36 add'l employees, 5 add'l parking spaces, add 11 more employees, 2 new picnic areas, allow outdoor amplified music, new service road, 4 more parking spaces, acceleration lane on Trail, utility additions, recognize required 75% production level, 1410 more visitors/yr. Hearing Notice map [to be continued to Sept 16, 2020] 8A Inn at the Abbey DEIR scoping session 79 room hotel and resort located adjacent to and operated in conjunction with the Freemark Abbey Winery Hearing Notice map The coming of the winery hotel and the Las Vegas-ization of the Napa Valley. SCR on The Hotel Binge |
| Tue, Aug 11, 2020 9:00am | Board of SupervisorsAgenda and documents 9D Cain Winery Status Determination Appeal A modest difference over documented permitted visitation (260/yr) in 1981 and assumed allowed current visitation (1600/yr) has turned into a major bureaucratic (and cost) headache for a long-time, authentic wine maker as the County digs in its heels on enforcement and process. In the meantime tens of thousands of new visitor slots are being granted each month to tourism entrepreneurs who have the disposable wealth needed to secure a winery use permit approval. [remanded to staff to reconsider their recommendation] |
| Wed, Aug 19, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and documents 7A Saintsbury Winery Major Mod 30,795 more visitors/yr, 9 more employees, 11 more parking spaces, outdoor visitatiaon, sanitary/water upgrades. Hearing Notice Map [approved 5-0, visitation reduced to 450vis/wk or 23,900 add'l vis/yr] 8A Digital and E-Commerce in the Wine Industry Paul Mabray Presentation 8/19/20 video discussion begins at 0:16:00 8B Workshop on WInery Comparison Analysis 8/19/20 video discussion begins at 1:19:33 |
| Tue, Sep 1, 2020 9:00am | Board of SupervisorsAgenda and Documents 10:15am 9D Anthem Winery Appeal Appeal of the 2/5/20 approval of the project by the Planning Commission. Video of 2/5/20 PC Meeting Agenda for 2/5/20 PC Meeting [To be Continued to Nov 10, 2020] |
| Wed, Sep 2, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and Documents Hyde Winery Major Mod 39,700 more visitors/yr, 23 more parking spaces, 5 more employees [Approved 5-0 with visitation reduction to 23660 more vis/yr] Ballentine Vineyards Recognize-Allow-Expand Major Mod 75000 more gal/yr, 22,835 more visitors/yr, 22 more parking spaces, 93 trips, 15 employees tot, setback varience County current projects explorer Hearing Notice Map [approved 5-0 with minor visitation reductions] |
| Wed, Sep 16, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and Documents Rombauer Winery Recognize-Allow-Expand Major Mod [tentative - continued from Aug 5, 2020 hearing] recognize 36 add'l employees, 5 add'l parking spaces, add 11 more employees, 2 new picnic areas, allow outdoor amplified music, new service road, 4 more parking spaces, acceleration lane on Trail, utility additions, recognize required 75% production level, 1410 more visitors/yr. Hearing Notice 8/5/20 Hearing agenda letter Map [approved 5-0, picnic area and amplified/background music excluded, TDM modified] Benjamin Ranch Winery New Use Permit 475,000 gal/yr, 146,000 visitors/yr, 87,000sf of buildings, 61 employees, 75 parking spaces, sale of "wine related items". Staff: "project would not have any potentially significant environmental impacts". Hearing Notice Map [to be continued with reduced visitation and staff response to comm questions to a date uncertain "as soon as possible"] Nickel & Nickel Recognize-Allow-Expand Major Mod Recognize and allow 46 more employees. Add 100,000 more gal/yr, 49,300 more visitors/yr, food service, 61 more parking spaces, 6000 more sf of building area. Hearing Notice Map [approved 5-0] |
| Wed, Sep 23, 2020 9:00am | County Zoning Administrator meetingHindawi Residence Viewshed Application Agenda Letter Agenda and Documents Zoning Administrator Page One of Napa Valley's iconic central knolls to be developed into home site. SCR on the project here [Approved at 9:18am] |
| Wed, Nov 4, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and Documents 7B Cakebread Cellars Major Mod 300,000 more gal/yr, redistribution but no increase in visitation, 43 more employees, lots of water tanks 8A Housing Element Status Report ABAG currently proposing a 792 affordable unit allocation for unincorporated county for 2022-2030. (3816 allocation for entire county.) |
| Tue, Nov 10, 2020 9:00am | Board of SupervisorsAnthem Winery Appeal [to be continued to Jan 26, 2021, 1:30pm] Appeal of the 2/5/20 approval of the project by the Planning Commission. Video of 2/5/20 PC Meeting Agenda for 2/5/20 PC Meeting BOS 9/1/20 Staff Letter [from 9/1/20 meeting] |
| Wed, Nov 18, 2020 9:00 | Napa Planning CommissionAgenda and Documents video of hearing Sullivan Winery Recognize, Allow, Expand Major Mod new winery buiding, 10500 more gal/yr, 16136 more visitor/yr, 18 more empolyees, 20 more parking spaces, food service added, longer hours more days/wk. 1090 Galleron Road [approved 5-0] Shadybrook Winery Major Mod 11366 more visitors/yr, food service, road exception 100 Rapp Lane [approved 3-2 Gallagher, Cottrell no, Whitmer, Dameron,Mazotti yes] |
| Wed, Dec 2, 2020 9:00 | County Planning CommissionAgenda and documents Sinskey Vineyards Recognize,Allow Major Mod 45,625 more visitors/yr, 27 more employees, use productin area for visitation, on-site consumption. Hearing Notice Silverado Trail [continued to Jan 20,2020] Kenzo Winery Major Mod 48,000 more gal/yr, 45,945sf cave expansion, spoils exported, road exception. Hearing Notice Off Monticello Rd [approved 5-0] |
| Fri, Dec 4, 2020 9:00am | Climate Action Committee MeetingAgenda and Documents The county web page that collected all of the Climate Action Plan documents over the years seems to have disappeared. SCR on Climate Action Plan "public access will only be available electronically or telephonically." |
| Tue, Dec 15, 2020 9:00am | Board of SupervisorsAgenda and Documents 10A Wine tourism entrapreneur wish list A newly formed gaggle of winery impresarios, Coalition Napa Valley, is seemingly promoting a rollback wishlist of almost all winery visitation regulations in place since 1990. Those regulations have been at the heated heart of Board and Planning Commission meetings ever since, representing millions of hours in participant time and billions of dollars in lawyers, reports and studies. And here is a request to just do away with it all, at the mere cost of 895 hours (i.e. the next year) of staff time and, of course, the preservationist soul of the county. None of the other wine industry stakeholders, normally out front in promoting winery tourism, seem yet to be on board. |
| Wed, Dec 16, 2020 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and documents Signorello Winery Major Mod 30,000 more gal/yr, 13000+ more visitors/yr, add 15,900sf of caves, 17 parking spaces, 16 more employees hearing notice 4500 Siverado Trail [Approved 5-0] |
| Tue, Jan 12, 2021 9:00am | Board of SupervisorsAgenda and Documents 13B Balloons Above the Valley Appeal The conflict between quality of life for residents and the promotion of an economy based on tourism is again on the docket for the Board. Thus far they have consistantly chosen the tourism industry over residents. With Sup. Pedroza now as chair (see his lone support of event center impresarios here) it will be surprise if the approval of more tourism development isn't continued. [Appeal - and more tourism - supported 3-2, Pedroza, Ramos and Gregory yes, Dillon, Wagenknecht no] |
| Wed, Jan 20, 2021 9:00am | County Planning CommissionAgenda and Documents 7A Sinskey Vineyards recognize, allow, expand Major Mod more visitors, more employees, use of production area for hospitality. [continued to 1/20/21] 7B Wheeler Farms Winery recognize, allow, expand Major Mod 20,000 more gal/yr, 15 more parking spaces in the vineyard, road exceptions |
| Tue, Jan 26, 2021 1:30pm | Board of SupervisorsAgenda and Documents 13C Anthem Winery Appeal [continued from Nov 10, 2020] Appeal of the 2/5/20 approval of the project by the Planning Commission. Hearing Notice Project Appeal Documents Video of 2/5/20 PC Meeting Agenda for 2/5/20 PC Meeting BOS 9/1/20 Staff Letter [from 9/1/20 meeting] SCR Anthem Page [Appeal denied 4-1, Sup. Dillon in support] |
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