Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Cannabis Enforcement Team Is Disbanded
Shrinking revenues and fewer raids lead supervisors to shift funds elsewhere.
Staff Writer
40 articles
Shrinking revenues and fewer raids lead supervisors to shift funds elsewhere.
By Melinda Burns ·
A Buellton-area winemaker is asking the courts to allow his class-action lawsuit over the “strong stench” of pot to proceed to trial.
By Melinda Burns ·
The Sheriff’s Office will take the biggest hit. In a surprise move, the board signaled it may shift law enforcement funds to health, education and youth programs.
By Melinda Burns ·
The famous fishing boat stops in S.B. as it re-creates John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts’s 1940 expedition to the Sea of Cortez.
By Melinda Burns ·
“It’s about time,” Carpinterians say of the supervisors’ historic vote to require state-of-the-art odor control.
By Melinda Burns ·
Three Santa Barbara County supervisors listen to Carpinteria residents at their hometown City Hall.
By Melinda Burns ·
Property owners are bankrupt, owing more than $9 million, court records show.
By Melinda Burns ·
“This will send shockwaves throughout California’s cannabis industry,” the winning side says.
By Melinda Burns ·
Growers would have at least 12 months to comply, and that’s too long, Carpinterians say.
By Melinda Burns ·
His project would be state-of-the-art, but what about the smell from his greenhouses?
By Melinda Burns ·
“We really need to listen to the neighbors,” a Santa Barbara County planning commissioner says.
By Melinda Burns ·
Prices are low, growers keep quitting, and it’s “not very positive,” Santa Barbara County officials say.
By Melinda Burns ·
The immigrant who became a Santa Barbara County supervisor.
By Melinda Burns ·
County supervisors vow to get rid of the smell of pot by tightening odor-control regs across the Carpinteria Valley.
By Melinda Burns ·
“We’re flipping the script,” the chair of the new board says.
By Melinda Burns ·
Island Breeze Farms denied a zoning permit, a first for the region.
By Melinda Burns ·
“I have no sympathy for this particular applicant,” a Santa Barbara County planning commissioner says.
By Melinda Burns ·
An odor threshold for the greenhouse property lines would be a start, but it won’t solve the problem, residents say.
By Melinda Burns ·
A water rights lawsuit by giant carrot corporations, well into its third year, is driving up legal fees and gumming up the plans for sustainability, residents say.
By Melinda Burns ·
Cannabis operation next to the Polo Condos in the Carpinteria Valley must install carbon scrubbers for odor control, Santa Barbara County Planning Commission says.
By Melinda Burns ·
“For the moment, this is on pause,” a county supervisor says.
By Melinda Burns ·
“It’s so frickin’ complicated,” a county supervisor says.
By Melinda Burns ·
Operator will install state-of-the-art clean-air technology, setting a statewide standard, Santa Barbara County officials say.
By Melinda Burns ·
Four pot shops in unincorporated areas were expected to open but didn’t, officials said.
By Melinda Burns ·
Small changes such as “blind scoring” will enhance fairness, officials said.
By Melinda Burns ·
Board votes 3-2 for another study on how to solve a six-year-old problem.
By Melinda Burns ·
How Roy beat Das 2-1 in their hometown, and what it could mean for cannabis.
By Melinda Burns ·
Opponents did not appeal the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission’s 4-1 approval.
By Melinda Burns ·
A Michigan-based company wants to drill an exploratory well two miles deep.
By Melinda Burns ·
But it does not exceed the legal threshold, the County of Santa Barbara says.
By Melinda Burns ·
APCD gives major polluter Central Coast Agriculture 180 days to install a critical piece of clean-air technology.
By Melinda Burns ·
“We kept our promises, and they broke theirs,” a citizens’ coalition says.
By Melinda Burns ·
Central Coast Agriculture, a major polluter, has 60 days to get clean-air permits, regulators say.
By Melinda Burns ·
Farmers and ranchers take aim at Bolthouse and Grimmway, the carrot corporations that are suing all other landowners over water rights.
By Melinda Burns ·
They cite Wendy McCaw’s “willful refusal to comply” with a 2017 court order.
By Melinda Burns ·
Faced with mandatory pumping cutbacks, the biggest water-guzzlers in the Cuyama Valley are forcing farmers, ranchers, water agencies, and the school district into an expensive battle over groundwater rights.
By Melinda Burns ·
At a June 6 hearing, county supervisors unanimously proposed not to renew business licenses if the grower misses one quarterly tax deadline.
By Melinda Burns ·
It’s been a smelly five years with little relief at the Polo Condos, neighbors of Island Breeze say.
By Melinda Burns ·
North County operators with permits for more than 160 acres of pot walked away this month, as the Board of Supervisors sought a way to shore up slumping cannabis tax revenues.
By Melinda Burns ·
Local ranchers, joined by Harvard students, oppose the university’s plans to build reservoirs at its large vineyard off Highway 166.
By Melinda Burns ·