{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"KZYX News","title":"BoS discusses ordinance to establish appeals process for cannabis permit denials","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":390,"description":"October 25, 2022 — The Board of Supervisors is working on amending the cannabis cultivation ordinance to add a new ordinance that will establish an appeals process for applicants whose permits have been denied. The amendment could go live as soon as December, after a fee hearing and a second reading.\r\n\r\nThe effort to craft the appeals ordinance is taking place concurrently with an attempt to clarify what kind of tree removal cultivators can engage in, and what evidentiary standards should be required to prove that they are not damaging the environment by removing trees to improve their cultivation sites. Outside legal counsel is scheduled to bring the tree removal item before a Board of Supervisors standing committee in December.\r\n\r\nLast week, the full Board discussed the amendment that will establish how permit applicants can appeal a denial. Cannabis Department Director Kristin Nevedal told the Board that for now, only applicants who never got as far as the portal are being denied. She added that the process of renewing permits has involved a certain amount of correspondence.\r\n\r\nNevedal told the Board that, “The only individuals that have been denied since the Board directive to pause denials until the appeals ordinance has been completed are those who failed to submit materials through the 2021 portal, and then a smaller portion of folks who failed to submit in 2021 but were allowed into the 2022 corrections portal and then failed to submit again. They have been denied as well. So what we’re struggling with currently in regards to a lack of response is issued permits that are undergoing renewal. So we have renewals, not in all cases, but in a number of instances, taking an incredibly long time because folks will not respond with full application packets in a timely manner. So we’re constantly sending notices. It’s a fifteen-day notice, and then it’s a seven-day notice, and then we still don’t have the materials we need at the department to conduct the review....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xZpAumwbhFUpJUYcwaQ1-q6snzOyqAm13l7cW6AWPCM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMzkz/NjAwNjc2OWMyZmFk/YWY2YTdmYjI5M2Mz/YWMxNy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}