The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors tinkered with its cannabis ordinance this week, promising immediate relief to 500 residents of North County canyons but angering Carpinterians and Buellton-area vintners who said the proposals would do little to restrain an industry they view as running rampant and unchecked.
In its biggest move, the board voted 3-2 in concept to ban commercial cannabis cultivation and processing in rural neighborhoods such as Tepusquet and Cebada Canyons northeast of Sisquoc and Lompoc, respectively, where residents have clamored for such a measure for years. At countless hearings, they have recounted how the generator noise, truck traffic, night lights, and “skunky” odor of industrial-scale cannabis were disrupting their country way of life.
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