File #: 17-679    Version: 1 Name: SRBZA Dispersa Labs Cannabis Manufacturing
Type: Staff Report Status: Filed
In control: Board of Zoning Adjustments
Meeting Date: 12/7/2017 Final action: 12/7/2017
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: PLN17-0063; Consideration of a Conditional Use Permit on a pilot basis for a proposed ?7,745 square-foot cannabis product manufacturing facility within an existing industrial building at 1655 Abram Court, zoned IG(S) - Industrial General District (Special Review Overlay District). A Cannabis Product Manufacturing Facility is a conditionally permitted use on the subject property. Alameda County Assessor's Parcel Number 79A-338-1-17; Dispersa Labs, Inc. (applicant) and Zhaoha Feng (property owner).
Sponsors: Cynthia Battenberg
Attachments: 1. 01_Vicinity Map, 2. 02_Project Description Operation Security, 3. 03_Trip Gen_8-15-17, 4. 04_Noise Assess 8-28-17, 5. 05_Rec Findings, 6. 06_Rec Conditions, 7. 07_Exhibits A-D, 8. 08_Photographs
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PLN17-0063; Consideration of a Conditional Use Permit on a pilot basis for a proposed ?7,745 square-foot cannabis product manufacturing facility within an existing industrial building at 1655 Abram Court, zoned IG(S) - Industrial General District (Special Review Overlay District). A Cannabis Product Manufacturing Facility is a conditionally permitted use on the subject property. Alameda County Assessor's Parcel Number 79A-338-1-17; Dispersa Labs, Inc. (applicant) and Zhaoha Feng (property owner).

Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION

The applicant Dispersa Labs, Inc. (DL) is proposing a ?7,745 square foot cannabis product manufacturing facility on a pilot basis within an existing 13,347 square-foot two-tenant industrial building at 1655 Abram Court, currently a vacant former warehouse distribution space. San Leandro Zoning Code Sections 2-706.B.16 and 4-1640.A require approval of a Conditional Use Permit prior to establishment of a Cannabis Product Manufacturing Facility in the IG Industrial General District.

Staff finds that, with the recommended Conditions of Approval, the proposed cannabis manufacturing use will be appropriate and compatible with adjacent industrial development in the immediate neighborhood. Staff recommends that the Board of Zoning Adjustments:

1. Adopt the California Environmental Quality Act categorical exemptions;

2. Adopt the recommended Findings of Fact; and

3. Approve Conditional Use Permit and Site Plan Review PLN17-0063 subject to the attached recommended Conditions of Approval.

APPLICANT'S SUPPORTING STATEMENT

See attached Applicant Project Description.

RELATIONSHIP TO SURROUNDING AREA

The subject property is zoned IG(S) Industrial General District (Special Review Overlay District), as are the immediate properties to the south, east, and west. Adjacent properties within Abram Court primarily consist of multi-tenant industrial buildings that support uses including warehouses, wholesale businesses, light manufacturing...

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