HomeMy WebLinkAboutvance letterMoghannam, Kathleen
From: Yamaguchi, Kim
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:04 PM
To: Moghannam, Kathleen
Subject: FW: Talked to Chuck Thistlethwaite
FYI
From: Pat Vance mailto: at vance nvwis .com
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:44 PM
To: Kirk, Maureen; Connelly, Bill; Wahl, Larry; district buttecoun .net; Yamaguchi, Kim
Subject: Fwd: Talked to ChuckThistiethwaite
I talked to Chuck Thistlethwaite this morning and he said everything I was saying makes sense and I needed to
send a letter to the board and to Tim Snelling. He said there are cases in court right now that they hope will,
give them more understanding of what the law is going to let them do to regulate many of the problems
the county is facing with 2151aw.
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From: Pat Vance c at vance nvwis .comma
Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:41 1'M
Subject: Talked to Chuck Thistlethwaite
To: tsnellings(a7buttecounty.net
co-op grows as business?
I talked to Chuck Thistlethwaite this morning and he ask me to send you this letter so it could be considered in
the recommendations to the board for the upcoming meeting on the 4th of May. I have sent several letters to
the board about the pollution and land use problems, I testified at the last meeting about that and included some
of the road problems.
I will be at the next meeting to speak out again. Chuck explained you are waiting for same court decisions to
help with this particular situation. But I still feel the business laws and nuisance laws by business should be
used for these co-op growers.
Apri120, 2011
To Whom it may concern:
I recently spoke to DA Mr. Ramsey about the situation in our development with the larger Marijuana grows in
our community. Concerning the use of our private roads for these Co-op grows.
Co-op grows have so many commercial aspects to them. Soil in double trailer semi's and truck and trailer loads
of fertilizers and lava rock, employees who grow, cut, dry, process, live intents in the crop to protect from
thieves. Even the new lower 24 plants being proposed, having 3 cutting per year would still require this extra
damaging traffic on our private roads.
Mr. Ramsey continued to say this would be an illegal husiness~ ut the 215 law say's the script holder is
allowed to have a caregiver grow is plants. So is this a legal illegal business? The grower is being paid to
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grow the plants for a script holder, how is that not a business and how is it an illegal business if 215 law allows
it?
All but one of the large co-op growers in our community do not have a job outside there activities in the co-op
grow, so it appears that the grow is there job and income, which they brag about how much they make,
$100,000. to over a million.
No matter if they are business or not they are using our private roads that we are liable for, requiring repairs at
great financial costs to all lot owners. The state and Federal laws require us to maintain in a safe condition, but
are allowing these co-op crows to destroy them year after year with, according to all county agencies we ask for
help, that there is no specif c way they have to help us. They can try to us the nuisance laws, but they are
waiting for some higher court rulings to see what power they have to do so.
Requiring them to get a license would make them to go through the same process all other business go through
to make sure there business is not going to be a nuisance to the community, or cause undue hardships on a
community.
The co-op stores are required to get a business license and these grows are the same as a co-op store that has
regulations and non profit requirements, and have to prove they are non profit, but at the same time have to
report the payroll for the store employees that will have to file and pay there taxes. The grows in our area work
on these grows with no other source of income and have no regulations or non profit requirements?
We will appreciate any help you can give us, as the county seems to have nothing at this time to help with our
problem. We have spent $57,000. on our roads just to watch them be torn apart by these co-op growers
operations, year after year.
Thank you -Patricia Vance - 530- 533-3770