Protect Pozo from Industrial Marijuana

This proposed project is not compatible with the the neighboring area and will negatively impact the residents, the Santa Margarita community and the environment.

These projects are NOT COMPATIBLE with the Pozo area and they create an ecological disaster for the residents and the county In general. I am against this project and all cannabis projects being forced on us by the climate of greed and corruption that has plagued the county PC and BOS for the last few years. These projects cannot be allowed to be forced into our lives by ignorant, greedy and corrupt bureaucrats . Save Pozo and make a stand.

It's time our property taxes - and our voice - was valued. These grows are incompatible with the existing character/use of the area. The nuisance of cannabis (Odor/Crime/de-valuing of ex. Property/etc.) warrants all residential to be considered sensitive areas as the grows negatively impact the owners of the properties that have been well established long before.

This business is a bad fit for the area! My family has resided in the area since the 1800’s. Families have made livings on livestock and dry land farming. This type of business will tax an already insufficient water supply in the area as well as cause issues with traffic, crime, smell and compatibility with existing businesses.

I am a Santa Margarita resident and strongly appose locating a Cannabis operation on Parkhill Road in Pozo. Pozo is our neighboring community and what happens there directly affects our town. We already have issues in our small town with crime and traffic. I believe this project would increase crime and there are a lot of young families that have settled in Margarita that we want to protect. The slow response time for law enforcement is already an issue and this project is further increasing the activity that will take resources away from us all (all you have to do is read our community FB page. There are all sorts of posts about recent crime that you would never expect in our sleepy town). Furthermore, our kids cross highway 58 on their walks/rides to Santa Margarita elementary and we do not want to increase traffic through town. Realize on highway 58 through town where we cross, there is no stop light or stop sign. Only a cross walk with flashing lights. Most of the time, drivers, including trucks, passing through do not stop for people to cross and we have seen several close calls. I have also enjoyed a few weekends at the Oak Creek Lodge. The quiet rural setting is what makes that place so special. If a Cannabis operation is put next door, I would likely not return nor recommend it. I'm sure a lot of future customers would agree and this will unfairly affect the future financial success of that property. There are other industrial locations where this kind of business is better suited.

Please find a way to cluster cannabis grows in an industrial zone away from residences, vineyards and other businesses that are part of what makes our county a destination for tourists. No one will come for wine tasting or to stay at our lovely retreats and B&Bs if the area stinks and there is a lot of industrial traffic.

These grows are incompatible with the existing character/use of the area. The nuisance of cannabis (Odor/Crime/de-valuing of ex. Property/etc.) warrants all residential to be considered sensitive areas as the grows negatively impact the owners of the properties that have been established.

We need to find a solution that works for everybody. Clustering these projects in a cannabis zoned area, away from where it causes nuisance to the community is a sensible solution.

I am definitely against the proposed cannabis application as it is not aligned with the Pozo life style, Pozo agriculture and will use too much water from a reservoir already declined below sustainability values.

Industrial use is not appropriate so near this wonderful property that has been built for family and corporate retreats.

We have enjoyed staying at the Lodge at Oak Creek for numerous years the drive through the rural countryside is both beautiful and decompressing. The thought of negotiating these roads and encountering large trucks is both a safety hazard and wildly out of place in this bucolic setting. The impact of a commercial enterprise, specifically a marijuana processing complex, is clearly an incompatible land use with the neighboring Oak Creek Ranch which hosts family and organization gatherings. The environmental impacts will be significant to this sensitive region. VOTE AGAINST this inappropriate and graceless proposal.

I strongly object to locating a Cannibus operation on Parkhill Road in Pozo. The negative aspects of cannabis growing and processing marijuana on neighbors are well documented. Neighbors of Industrial Marijuana facilities have noted: Constant strong, sickly smell of cannabis; Day and Night noise from heating, cooling equipment; constant around the clock bright lighting; Increased traffic and large scale equipment going in and out all of the time; Huge increases in use of water and electricity. These are not consistent with the land use in this beautiful, quiet, corner of the central coast.

I am very familiar with the area being proposed for the marijuana processing facility and strongly object to its approval. Not only should the negative impact on surrounding property owners be taken into consideration but also the effects on the area as a whole: increased water usage, traffic (legal and illegal), and a radical change to the traditional land use. Please deny the approval of this project.

No matter how legal it would be to approve the marijuana grow it will still attract the attention of the criminal element. It could increase the potential for crime and lack of personal safety due to the remoteness of this area.

Please vote against this proposed operation. Not only is the size and scope of this operation completely unsustainable from a water resources standpoint, but this operation would negatively impact three health, safety, and environment of the surrounding community. Please vote against this project.

The size and scope of the proposed operation presents numerous healthy, safety, and environmental impacts that are unsustainable and out of character for the surrounding area while negatively impacting the health, safety, and we’ll-being of long standing Pozo citizens and the Pozo community, as a whole.

Bad move. Please slow the expansion of grows. Water is scarce, if for no other reason.

Water use is to high with no regard for any of the neighbors

These grows are horrific to our beautiful area and do not belong here. Please, SLO County government, come to your senses and respect the citizenry who will have to deal with the impact of these grows every day! This is an industrial security operation and belongs nowhere near this location!

I oppose this forced intrusion of a cannabis operation in Pozo for the same reasons I oppose these cannabis grows in Creston. Simply these operations do not belong in residential agriculture and traditional agriculture family homes and farms. Over the last two years Creston has opposed these cannabis grows - SLO County has heard the reasons why we do not want these operations forced on us or our neighbors. Please listen and hear this....Look at Santa Barbara County as the example of this experiment with cannabis gone bad. Do not repeat the disaster that is Santa Barbara County here in SLO. Please vote NO to cannabis grows like this one in Pozo within communities and near traditional agriculture.