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TO: BOARD OF SUPE11VISORS
Contra
FROM: C
Supervisor Tom Tosta
�orlakson
DATE: October 5, 1993 'County
SUBJECT: DIRECT COUNTY COUNSEL TO AMEND CODE SECTIONS RELATED
TO COLD STORAGE FACILITIES IN AGRICULTURAL ZONING
SPECIFIC REOUEST(G)OR RECOMMEHOATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Direct County Counsel, in conjunction
with the Community Development Department, to amend County Code
Sections 84-38 .404 and 84-40-404 (Uses with Land Use Permit) to
delete cold storage plants as a use requiring a land use permit
and to amend County Code Sections 84-38. 402 and 84-40 . 402 to
include cold storage plants as an allowable use.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Farmers in East County who have
recently attempted to build new agriculturally-related structures
and expand already existing facilities that include cold storage
have been told that in addition to the electrical and mechanical
permits required, they are required to have building permits and
land use permits. The Board of Supervisors was informed by the
Building Inspection Department in August that due to a revision
in State law building permits are now required for agricultural
buildings . 1.
In addition, Community Development has brought to the
attention of those applying that any agriculture structure
including cold storage requires a land use permit.
Currently the County Code provides that the following
agricultural structures that may be constructed without a land
use permit are: the erection and maintenance of sheds,
warehouses, granaries, dehydration plants, hullers, fruit and
vegetable packing plants, and buildings for the storage of
agricultural products and equipment. In many cases, the
provision of cold storage in buildings erected for the storage of
fruit and vegetable crops is inherent to the harvesting and
processing of the crop, whether that crop is processed onsite or
shipped out. Temperature control is a necessity for many crops
whether they are to be processed onsite, or stored onsite for a
period from anywhere from a few hours to several days.
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Cold storage facilities do not appear to be as intensive as
the other uses currently requiring a land use permit under the ag
codes, among them canneries, slaughterhouses and stockyards, and
merchandising of agriculture supplies and services incidental to
an agricultural use. It appears that cold storage is many times
an integral component of the allowable uses indicated under Item
2 of Sections 84-38 . 402 and 84-40. 402 and as such should be a
permitted use not requiring a land use permit.
The 1991 General Plan contains a number of policies that
encourage the economic viability of agriculture in Contra Costa.
Amendment of these code sections will aid in the implementation
of those policies .
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