Two high profile South County issues — an indoor cannabis growing operation  and a truck terminal with parking for 711 truck-trailers — are before the San Joaquín Planning Commission on Thursday.

*The truck terminal is proposed west of Interstate 5 on the southwest corner of Frewert Road and South Manthey Road north of the Lathrop city limits

*The wholesale cannabis growing operation is proposed on South Bird Road, some 4,000 feet south of Eleventh Street, east of the Tracy city limits.

The commercial cannabis operation will consist of seven 3,456-square-foot greenhouses, a 5,700-square-foot greenhouse, perimeter security fencing, converting an existing 2,280-square-foot house into an office and security station, installing wastewater tanks and a 50kw emergency backup generator, as well as using an existing 5,000 square-foot building for equipment and supply storage.

The operation will supply legal storefront retail cannabis concerns throughout California.

Local jurisdictions such as San Joaquin County under state law have the ability to allow such operations.

The endeavor is proposed for a 3 acre parcel at 24707 South Bird Road.

The cannabis grow hasn’t generated much concern.

That’s not the case for the truck terminal.

A group dubbed Concerned Citizens, Farmers & Ranchers of French Camp, Lathrop, and Manteca have gone on record against the project. They also have submitted a petition with the signatures of 120 people opposing the truck terminal.

The commission received five letters supporting the project and six against it from nearby property owners.

The proposed truck terminal  is just south of the Interstate 5/Roth Road interchange that is the primary access to the Union Pacific Railroad intermodal facility sandwiched between Lathrop and Manteca west of Airport Way.

The intermodal facility is in the process of an expansion project.

It will take the capacity of the current design to handle 280,000 truck trips a year to and from the railroad facility to ultimately 730,000 based on Union Pacific documents.

The intermodal operation uses lifts to take truck trailers and shipping containers from trucks to place on rail cars and vice versa.

The project proposed by Railport Logistics will create a truck terminal to accommodate a total of 711 truck and trailer parking spaces in two phases over five years.

The first phase includes a 1,000-square-foot guard house, a 2,800-square-foot fueling station, an 80-square-foot scale building, a 4,900-square-foot maintenance shop, and conversion of an existing 900-square-foot residential home to a caretaker’s unit.

The second phase would convert three pole barns to provide 72,300 square feet of covered parking.

 The planning commission meets at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 18, in the Board of Supervisors chambers at the San Joaquin County Administrative building at 44 North San Joaquin Street in downtown Stockton.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com