The facility would include the use of what's called a 'membrane bioreactor' wastewater treatment device that would enable New Komiza to recycle 150,000 gallons of water a day, which they intend to distribute to nearby wineries for irrigation. New Komiza has already built a well on the site, which has been tested to provide 30 gallons of water a minute. However, it wasn't traffic that was the concern: it was water. W-Trans, a traffic-engineering consulting firm, provided a letter of support, stating that winery traffic would be minimal.
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The facility would be closed to the public, except for the occasional industry-wide event, such as Holidays in Carneros, for which New Komiza would need to apply for a license to offer wine. The winery would produce as much as 150,000 cases annually for New Komiza wine and would potentially serve as a custom crush for local wineries.
Current tenants at the park include Ganau America, a wine cork producer, and Laura Chenel's Chèvre, the high-end goat cheese producer. The proposed facility would be a merger of two parcels of land at the Carneros Business Park, a 53-acre industrial park located just north of Highway 121 on Eighth Street East, adjacent to Sonoma Sky Park. Water would be on the mind of every SVCAC member during the entire meeting.
Pons' remark about water set the stage for the rest of the meeting, which included a presentation by Nicholas Dilorio, of LandPlan Company, on behalf of New Komiza. She ended with a plea to not forget concerns of rural character and water usage. 'We have to weed out the problems in certain areas before this application is submitted,' Pons said regarding the impending review of the New Komiza winery. She said her concerns were amplified given that summer and fall, wine tourism's busiest time, are just around the corner. Pons said she's frustrated that policies regarding winery events - to deal with size, music and noise – have seemingly been pushed to the wayside due to the urgency of the recent cannabis ordinances. She took her time during the SVCAC meeting to reprise concerns about the continued increase in wineries in county-designated areas of concentration, such as the Valley. Pons has been an outspoken critic of wine tourism-related expansion. The meeting launched with public comments from Kathy Pons, president of the Valley of the Moon Alliance, a neighborhood group which keeps tabs on local development projects. The SVCAC ruling carries no official weight, but its stamp of approval could be taken into consideration if and when the project heads to the county Planning Commission. The facility would be operated by New Komiza, LLC, the company behind Sonoma's Scribe Winery. Water was the word March 22 as the Sonoma Valley Citizens Advisory Commission, in a 5-4 vote, narrowly gave its blessing to a proposal for a new 40,000-square-foot, 150,000-case wine-production facility at the Carneros Business Park in Sonoma's Eighth Street East warehouse district.
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