Santa Maria

The Santa Barbara County Zoning Administrator approved the development of a Tier II winery located along the Wine Trail on Foxen Canyon Road. The changes included the conversion of an existing 2,400 square foot single family dwelling into a winery support structure which includes a 330 square foot wine tasting room, four offices, an employee break room, restrooms, and a retail sales area. The site will be enhanced through substantial new landscaping, benches, walking paths, and a decorative pergola. The existing 2,100 square foot winery support structure is currently used to ferment, barrel store, and bottle wine from the existing vineyards.

The winery will produce a maximum of 20,000 cases of wine annually and will offer daily tasting from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Sunday.

Santa Maria Valley

The project applicant, Arc Vineyards, LLC, proposed site is on 193 acres east of Orcutt in the East Santa Maria Valley wine country an cconsists of the development of 70,000 square feet (sf) winery development currently under onstruction and will be the home of the Presquille Winery Estate Label. The winery operation will include a 12,790 sf wine production wine facility complete with multiple levels of fermenting, crushing, aging, and bottling, 12,3000 sf of wine caves, a 6,950 sf Hospitality building for tasting and special events, and a 6,1000 sf Administration Building.

As a working vineyard, the site will maintain 130 acres of on site estate grapes solely dedicated to the winery. Maintenance facilities will include maintenance structures, agricultural water reservoirs, and efficient irrigation systems. Industrial waste water produced through the winery development will be treated using a state of the art bio-remediation feeder system.

Upmost care for the surrounding natural landscapes was paramount in the development on the site full of oak woodlands and chaparral. The project was designed as to avoid the areas of sensitive habitat focusing construction in areas of historic agricultural production. All habitat areas are to remain pristine lending to the aesthetic of the winery a true experience. Landscaping for the project will focus on native designs.

Orcutt

C2 Cellars, located at the intersection of Highway 135 and San Antonio Creek Road is a Tier III winery that was approved by the County Planning Commission. RPS processed a conversion of an existing 19,050 square foot agricultural cooler into a Tier One winery to allow for immediate operation then proceeded with the application for a development plan for a Tier III winery to increase wine production to over 50,000 cases a year. In order to ensure the success of the permitting process, RPS developed a Comprehensive Land Management Plan onsite to develop the necessary vineyard production needed for the winery to be consistent with county policies. The winery was designed for crushing, fermentation, aging, storing and bottling and the facility was developed in order to be consistent with local and state standards for winery operations including permitting from the Regional Waste Quality Control Board for winery wastewater discharge, APCD winery air quality standards, and Fire Department HAZMAT requirements.

Guadalupe

The Apio Agricultural Cooler Facility Expansion consists of a 49,506 square foot expansion to its existing 155,233 square foot facility. The project also provides for rectification of access and utility easement that were either needed to be moved or antiquated. Apio was involved in processing this application for well over a year with little progress and much expense in moving the project through the City approval process. RPS was called in to get their project moving again. By negotiating with the city and coordination with the project team, RPS was able to move the project forward and get final approvals within three months obtaining the necessary approvals from the City.