Sonoma County Supervisors: Where’s that study you promised 3 years ago?

It’s been almost 3 years ago that the Supervisors promised a study on the impacts of events in this county.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR

A NEW TASTING ROOM WITH EVENTS AND

INTENT TO ADOPT A MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION

WHO: Dominic Foppoli/Foppoli Family Vineyards has applied for a Use Permit for a new Wine Tasting Room with events. PRMD File No. UPE15-0060.

WHAT: Request for a Use Permit to convert an existing 1,800 square foot garage to a tasting room, with limited barrel storage, a waiver to covered parking and to include two (2) wine club events, up to 30 people to take place during tasting room hours. The site location for the tasting room is 5107 Slusser Road, Windsor. APN: 066-280-036. Supervisorial District 4.

Zoning on the parcel is: DA B6-60, Z, F-2, RC50/50 VOH (Diverse Agriculture; Riparian Corridor 50/50; Flood Plain; Valley Oak Habitat Combing Districts).

The Sonoma County Board of Zoning Adjustments will hold a public hearing to consider adopting a Mitigated Negative Declaration and an action approving the Use Permit in which all interested persons are invited to attend and provide comments.

The potential project impacts have been analyzed and an Initial Study is available for review at the address below. A Mitigated Negative Declaration is proposed which finds that potential impacts to the environment have been fully mitigated by measures incorporated into the conditions of approval.

WHERE &

WHEN: The public hearing will be held on Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 1:05 p.m. at:

Sonoma County Permit and Resource Management Department Hearing Room

2550 Ventura Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95403

ADDITIONAL

INFORMATION: Details of the project and the environmental documents are available at the Permit and Resource Management Department at the address noted above.

HOW TO

GET INVOLVED: If you have any questions or concerns regarding the proposed project please contact Nash Gonzalez at (707) 771-6092 or via email at Nash@LandLogistics.com. In addition, you may contact the project applicant (Dominic Foppoli, dominic@foppoliwines.com , 707-484-3925).

Written comments may also be submitted prior to, or at the hearing. Please submit written materials 10 days prior to the hearing date so that it can be distributed and considered by the decision-makers. Any written material submitted after this date will be distributed to the decision-makers prior to or at the hearing.

If you challenge the decision on the project in court you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Permit and Resource Management Department at or prior to the public hearing.

DATE: July 23, 2018