Staglin Family Vineyard asked to quadruple visitation, a group of rural neighbors pleaded for far less and the Napa County Planning Commission came up with a number somewhere in-between.
Whether commissioners satisfied anyone with their Wednesday decision remains to be seen. Neither the attorneys representing the Staglins nor the neighborhood group could be reached afterward for comment. Once again, the issue involved a winery along a narrow, rural, dead-end road that also has homes, in this case, Bella Oaks Lane.
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Garen Staglin during the meeting talked about why his Napa Valley winery near Rutherford needs more visitors. He talked of the Staglinsâ commitment to the environment, to making estate wine, to the community, to keeping the winery within the family for future generations.