Listen up medicine farmers
I sued the County of Lake including the Planning Department, Board of Supervisors, back in 2009 regarding zoning for highway scenic corridor.
They wanted me to remove all my construction equipment I had at the time because they considered it out of zone. They took me on; I hired a lawyer out of San Francisco, and took the County on. It went to the Lake County Superior Court and the Honorable Judge Herrick presided.
When it was all over with and all the evidence was presented, the decision was made by Judge Herrick that specifically stated if you were doing whatever before the rules it was considered a “legal non-conforming grandfathered use”. My opinion is under Measure N guidelines, if you grow pot under Measure N it is legal to grow there now regardless of whatever, because specifically if you were legal then you are legal now. That decision was on the books the end of 2009 under County of Lake vs. Rose.
Judge Herrick was a fair, open minded, common sense Judge, and we have a lot of those in Lake County and are very fortunate to have them.
Judge Herrick still lives in the area, he is a very good upstanding person and was an upstanding Judge.
If I can help anyone let me know.
Ron Rose, Lakeport
A nation, not a social experiment
The votes have been tallied and the people have now spoken. God bless America.
Maybe now it can be understood that the leadership of the greatest country in the history of mankind is more than some social experiment with affirmative action.
It is just too bad that the majority of Californians no longer possess this same kind of pioneering spirit as far as the state of Jefferson is concerned.
Craig A. Stankiewicz, Kelseyville
Laugh of the day
Mexico is in a panic mode now trying to figure out how they are going to pay for the Wall!!
Mac McKay, Lakeport
