DATE: November 7, 2023
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steven E. White, Director
Department of Public Works and Planning
SUBJECT: Partial Cancellation of Agricultural Land Conservation Contract No. 152 (RLCC No. 1028 - Sample Trust)
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
1. Consider petition for partial cancellation of Agricultural Land Conservation Contract No. 152 filed by Dale G. Mell on behalf of Patrick W. Sample and Georgia J. Sample family Trust to remove a 2.41-acre portion of a 42.93-acre parcel from the Williamson Act contract to allow the creation of a 2.41-acre homesite exception parcel for residential use; and
2. If your Board is able to make all five required findings listed under Government Code, Section 51282(b), take the following actions:
a. Adopt the Negative Declaration prepared for the Initial Study 8242; and
b. Adopt Resolution authorizing partial cancellation of Agricultural Land Conservation Contract No.152; and
c. Authorize Chairman to sign the Certificate of Tentative Cancellation and approve recording the Certificate of Cancellation when all conditions included in the Certificate of Tentative Cancellation have been satisfied.
The subject parcel is located on the west side of Watts Valley Road approximately one quarter mile north of its intersection with Bull Run Lane, approximately eight miles east of the nearest city limits of the City of Clovis (18613 Watts Valley Road) (APN: 158-021-61).
REPORT
This item was originally presented to your Board on May 23, 2023. At that hearing, your Board on a vote of 4 to 1 continued the item to be heard within 30 days as the applicant's representative or the applicant were not present to provide information as to how Findings Nos. 2, 3, and 5 of the five required cancellation Findings could be made. During the hearing, Staff did clarify that the applicant's representative has been informed of the May 23, 2023, hearing and according to the applicant's representative, he will be in attendance.
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