Hourglass Winery Use Permit Major Modification #P19-00102-MOD, Viewshed #P23-00278-VIEW, Conservation Regulations Exception #P23-00279-UP, & RSS Exception

Hourglass Winery Use Permit Major Modification #P19-00102-MOD, Viewshed #P23-00278-VIEW, Conservation Regulations Exception #P23-00279-UP, & RSS Exception

This application was submitted to participate in the County’s Code Compliance Program. The proposal is to grant a Use Permit Major Modification to an existing 30,000-gallon winery to allow the following: 1) Components necessary to remedy existing violations: Recognition and approval of daily tours and tastings by-appointment visitation and employee levels beyond what is currently entitled. Approval and recognition of these activities requires installation of driveway improvements. The request includes an Exception to the Conservation Regulations, and an Exception to the Napa County Road and Street Standards for proposed driveway improvement within the stream setback. The request also includes the removal of two hillside water tanks, on slopes greater than 50%, and restoration of the subject hillside. 2) Expansion beyond existing entitlements: Approval of an increase in wine production to 60,000 gallons per year, additional employees, an increase in daily tours and tastings by appointment only, increase of marketing events, construction of a new 916 sq. ft. tasting building (subject to the Viewshed Protection Program), construction of a new 6,555 sq. ft. tasting building, construction of 28,382 sq. ft of additions to the existing cave, addition of parking spaces, installation of a water tank, installation of a pump house, installation of a public water system, and new landscape planting.

Calistoga, Unincorporated area

Napa

Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area, Unincorporated

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Fish and Game Commission (CDFGC), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), California State Coastal Conservancy (SCC), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Delta Stewardship Council, Office of Historic Preservation, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 3, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, State Water Resources Control Board, Divison of Financial Assistance

Commercial (Winery Modification)(Sq. Ft. 39742, Acres 0.91, Employees 9)

Use Permit, Exception to the NCRSS

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire