A judge had ordered the board to reconsider its approval because of the Atlas Peak Fire. May 20, 2021
The Napa County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday re-affirmed a 2017 vote to give the green light to a proposed winery on Atlas Peak east of Napa, a project strongly opposed by neighbors. The vote in favor of the future Mountain Peak Winery was 3-2.
A final vote will take place July 13. The resolution will include restriction at the request of Supervisor Brad Wagenknecht – a restriction to visitations to the winery on days when the U.S. Weather Service issues red-flag fire warnings.
The Board of Supervisors originally approved the 100,000-gallon winery at 3265 Soda Canyon Road in August 2017, about two months before the deadly Atlas Peak Fire scorched much of the canyon, forcing harrowing evacuations in the middle of the night along the 6.5-mile dead-end road.
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The Napa County Board of Supervisors reconsidered its 2017 Mountain Peak Winery approval in light of the subsequent Atlas Fire and reached the same conclusion â the winery can be built in the mountains above Soda Canyon.
But the Board on Tuesday did make a change from its previous approval at the suggestion of Supervisor Brad Wagenknecht. Mountain Peak Winery will not be able to have visitors on red-flag fire warning days.Â
âThe thing that I keep hearing is the worry about cars going up and down there during a fire, Wagenknecht said. That s what we re really talking about here.â
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