September 2025 Board Meeting

Top 3 Key Takeaways

1. County Well Moratorium Extended: Board of Supervisors adopted Urgency Ordinance No. 1569, placing a 45-day pause on issuing new agricultural well permits in designated Focus Areas to allow time for reviewing permitting policies and assessing crop conversion impacts. During this moratorium period, no new ag well permits will be approved in affected areas (even for parcels only partly within a Focus Area), though exemptions apply for small domestic wells, public system wells, monitoring wells, and certain hardship cases, with a public hearing set for October 7 to consider extension or modification.