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San Joaquin County Community Development Dept . September 4, 2001 Page Two agreement, the County has authorized Mr. Hartzell to continue these activities pending the passing of the winery ordinance. Of course, that winery ordinance was approved on July 24, 2001, and the above-referenced application is being made pursuant to that ordinance. In order to assist the Department in dealing with that application, we would like to provide the Department with a bit of history concerning the ordinance and changes made thereto, a discussion of the allowable uses under the ordinance and an analysis of the application that has been filed. THE WINERY ORDINANCE The ordinance was redrafted numerous times . Almost all of the redrafting and referrals to subcommittees had to do with the definition of "marketing events" at wineries regulated by the ordinance . When the ordinance was ultimately passed, a section allowing facility rental was deleted from the ordinance in its entirety. The subject of our comments on the site approval application have to do with the portions related to marketing events, winery/wine seller facility rental events, and special events . The Board of Supervisors made it clear that rather than to have an ordinance which contained very specific rules which may or may not be applicable to all wineries, it would be appropriate for the Planning Department to make case by case determinations as to the appropriateness of these various events . Unfortunately, the supplemental information and marketing plans submitted by the applicant provides virtually no information from which the Planning Department could know anything about the nature, extent, and frequency of events planned at the proposed winery and, as a result, there is not sufficient information for the Department to attach meaningful conditions or limitations to these events .