DATE: June 20, 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 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 parcel for residential use; and
2. If your Board can 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 heard before your Board on May 23, 2023. At that hearing, your Board voted (4 to 1) to continue the item to be heard again within 30 days as the Applicant and/or representative were not present to provide supporting 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 had been informed of the May 23, 2023 hearing and that someone supporting the request should be in attendance.
This item comes to your Board with a recommendation for denial...
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