I support the Petition, Comments from Petition and Ordinance Proposal and attached documents that the HAT-Housing Action Team North Coast came up with in regards to Short Term Rentals. See attachment by Elizabeth Swenson.
I am sure you have read the 2 studies done by the Grand Jury.
Two Mendocino County Planning Commissioners (Architect Diana Wiedemann & Marie Jones) came up with a proposal. Please contact them.
Dan Gjerde and Ted Williams are on a subcommittee dealing with this issue, but I have not heard anything about the outcome. This seems to be just like all the other 28 subcommittees where the community will never know what transpired or if something transpired.
I am aware that the Coastal Commission and the County worked on regulations about additional housing on people’s property.
Cities like Fort Bragg make it possible to have a “granny unit” on the property.
Doctors, Dentists, Nurses, Teachers and many others can not find housing in this community. The situation is bad inland where people can not accept jobs (partly also do to the fires) and is even worse on the coast.
I was successful with the help of community members and the Mendocino County Planning Commissioners to turn down an application for a short term rental in Albion (G Road).
The County is not getting the TOT tax from all the short term rentals. We can not wait until the County approves a new General Plan.
Something has to change, and NOW as this area is becoming a “ghost county” as far as locals living here is concerned and we can not find people to work here. Even famous restaurants can only be open 4 nights a week like the Albion River Inn.
It greatly saddens me that hardworking residents in this area, who hold down steady jobs, are not able to purchase a home and the security home ownership offers because real estate prices are going up way more quickly than wages. On top of that, the rental prices are also rising. The competition for affordable housing is fierce. Some houses are selling for more than the already absurd asking prices. The medical offices as well as hospital are understaffed; people who would take those jobs can’t find housing. Vacation rentals are the result of a greedy outlook. Affordable housing for our wonderful community is more important than housing transient vacationers who add nothing to our community. I beg the BOS to take very seriously the recommendations of HAT.
Re: Public Expression.
You all have been hearing for quite some time now from MCA and our stakeholders in the cannabis community that Mendocino County is facing an existential threat to the existence of our county’s 1st, 2nd, 3rd and even a few 4th generation cultivators and medicine makers who are not being given County permits and State licenses. This is beyond ridiculous at this point. Our people are blocked by stringent, complicated and poorly interpreted regulations, not to mention inconsistent evaluations by reviewers of submitted application materials. As is described in Hannah Nelson’s memo, which I fully support and recommend that you consider, some applicants “may have only small technical corrections to make” but they languish in limbo waiting to continue to make their living as they have for years.
On top of that, we are faced with regs like vegetation modification that may not actually hurt anyone or anything but still manage to hold us back from obtaining County permits and State licenses in a timely manner so that we can continue the work we’ve been doing with this amazing plant for so long.
As some of you know, I’ve been counseling patients and teaching classes on the science and use of medical cannabis for going on 10 years now. Now WE in the medical community, are beginning to panic that the best quality tinctures, topicals, transdermals, edibles – these will all disappear. Our local medicine makers know HOW to manufacture cannabis meds in a way that connects the specific combination of chemical compounds from the plant, with the system in our bodies that achieves root-level herbal healing without the side effects that so famously accompany the use of synthetic pharmaceutical drugs.
Nothing in modern 20th century pharma meds matches the amazing, long-term healing of traditional herbal medicine. But the #1 Rule for Choosing and Using your Canna Meds wisely is to Be Sure that they are Pure and Potent. And that is the grave danger that we face. Simply put, we will lose that guarantee of Purity and Potency if we lose control of our cultivation and production.
Here’s the punch line. If you hand over our precious organic, sustainable, rejenerative farming techniques and products – not to mention our decades-old back to the land culture – if you hand them over to big ag or even medium ag – we will simply lose the purity and potency of the highest quality, most effective herbal medicines in the world. And timing is of the essence: Our small, craft, legacy farmers and medicine makers are going to go out of business if they can’t get permitted by the County in a timely – that means immediate – way and thereby get their state licenses so they can continue to produce these unique and irreplaceable medicines.
If we can’t match the looser cannabis licensing requirements that exist in some states or some of the more supportive counties in California like Humboldt by approving all permit applications that meet the basic requirements of a cultivation or operators’ permit, we can at least assign the “application complete” status that will allow our applicants to receive their Provisional State license, which must be secured by June 30th and requires that status from the County.
State law requires the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) to process patient license applications within 14 business days of the date the applicant submits it. OMMA will send applicants an email after staff reviews the application. The timeline for OMMA review of business applications and renewals is 90 business days. If an application is rejected for failure to provide required information, applicants have 30 calendar days to submit the required information or the application will expire.
The County still has to define the fallowing allowances and the vegetation modification directive needs to be corrected, or tossed, to protect the County from potential liability. But in the meantime, some easy actions can be taken to support our farmers and operators securing State licenses.
I urge you to set a goal of expediting allowance of the “application complete” status so our folks can get the provisional state licenses they need to move forward.
Thank you for taking action today.
Jude Thilman
BOS, I fully support Hannah Nelsons memo and request. Marnie B
Dear Supervisors,
I support the Petition, Comments from Petition and Ordinance Proposal and attached documents that the HAT-Housing Action Team North Coast came up with in regards to Short Term Rentals. See attachment by Elizabeth Swenson.
I am sure you have read the 2 studies done by the Grand Jury.
Two Mendocino County Planning Commissioners (Architect Diana Wiedemann & Marie Jones) came up with a proposal. Please contact them.
Dan Gjerde and Ted Williams are on a subcommittee dealing with this issue, but I have not heard anything about the outcome. This seems to be just like all the other 28 subcommittees where the community will never know what transpired or if something transpired.
I am aware that the Coastal Commission and the County worked on regulations about additional housing on people’s property.
Cities like Fort Bragg make it possible to have a “granny unit” on the property.
Doctors, Dentists, Nurses, Teachers and many others can not find housing in this community. The situation is bad inland where people can not accept jobs (partly also do to the fires) and is even worse on the coast.
I was successful with the help of community members and the Mendocino County Planning Commissioners to turn down an application for a short term rental in Albion (G Road).
The County is not getting the TOT tax from all the short term rentals. We can not wait until the County approves a new General Plan.
Something has to change, and NOW as this area is becoming a “ghost county” as far as locals living here is concerned and we can not find people to work here. Even famous restaurants can only be open 4 nights a week like the Albion River Inn.
Sincerely, Annemarie Weibel
It greatly saddens me that hardworking residents in this area, who hold down steady jobs, are not able to purchase a home and the security home ownership offers because real estate prices are going up way more quickly than wages. On top of that, the rental prices are also rising. The competition for affordable housing is fierce. Some houses are selling for more than the already absurd asking prices. The medical offices as well as hospital are understaffed; people who would take those jobs can’t find housing. Vacation rentals are the result of a greedy outlook. Affordable housing for our wonderful community is more important than housing transient vacationers who add nothing to our community. I beg the BOS to take very seriously the recommendations of HAT.
Re: Public Expression.
You all have been hearing for quite some time now from MCA and our stakeholders in the cannabis community that Mendocino County is facing an existential threat to the existence of our county’s 1st, 2nd, 3rd and even a few 4th generation cultivators and medicine makers who are not being given County permits and State licenses. This is beyond ridiculous at this point. Our people are blocked by stringent, complicated and poorly interpreted regulations, not to mention inconsistent evaluations by reviewers of submitted application materials. As is described in Hannah Nelson’s memo, which I fully support and recommend that you consider, some applicants “may have only small technical corrections to make” but they languish in limbo waiting to continue to make their living as they have for years.
On top of that, we are faced with regs like vegetation modification that may not actually hurt anyone or anything but still manage to hold us back from obtaining County permits and State licenses in a timely manner so that we can continue the work we’ve been doing with this amazing plant for so long.
As some of you know, I’ve been counseling patients and teaching classes on the science and use of medical cannabis for going on 10 years now. Now WE in the medical community, are beginning to panic that the best quality tinctures, topicals, transdermals, edibles – these will all disappear. Our local medicine makers know HOW to manufacture cannabis meds in a way that connects the specific combination of chemical compounds from the plant, with the system in our bodies that achieves root-level herbal healing without the side effects that so famously accompany the use of synthetic pharmaceutical drugs.
Nothing in modern 20th century pharma meds matches the amazing, long-term healing of traditional herbal medicine. But the #1 Rule for Choosing and Using your Canna Meds wisely is to Be Sure that they are Pure and Potent. And that is the grave danger that we face. Simply put, we will lose that guarantee of Purity and Potency if we lose control of our cultivation and production.
Here’s the punch line. If you hand over our precious organic, sustainable, rejenerative farming techniques and products – not to mention our decades-old back to the land culture – if you hand them over to big ag or even medium ag – we will simply lose the purity and potency of the highest quality, most effective herbal medicines in the world. And timing is of the essence: Our small, craft, legacy farmers and medicine makers are going to go out of business if they can’t get permitted by the County in a timely – that means immediate – way and thereby get their state licenses so they can continue to produce these unique and irreplaceable medicines.
If we can’t match the looser cannabis licensing requirements that exist in some states or some of the more supportive counties in California like Humboldt by approving all permit applications that meet the basic requirements of a cultivation or operators’ permit, we can at least assign the “application complete” status that will allow our applicants to receive their Provisional State license, which must be secured by June 30th and requires that status from the County.
State law requires the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) to process patient license applications within 14 business days of the date the applicant submits it. OMMA will send applicants an email after staff reviews the application. The timeline for OMMA review of business applications and renewals is 90 business days. If an application is rejected for failure to provide required information, applicants have 30 calendar days to submit the required information or the application will expire.
The County still has to define the fallowing allowances and the vegetation modification directive needs to be corrected, or tossed, to protect the County from potential liability. But in the meantime, some easy actions can be taken to support our farmers and operators securing State licenses.
I urge you to set a goal of expediting allowance of the “application complete” status so our folks can get the provisional state licenses they need to move forward.
Thank you for taking action today.
Jude Thilman
Please see attached memo regarding a time-sensitive request for BoS action
Attaching materials from HAT-Housing Action Team North Coast regarding short Term Rentals - Petition, Comments from Petition and ordinance Proposal
Let's keep what is left of Mendocino coast affordable housing for the people who actually LIVE here!