DATE: May 23, 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:
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 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 the 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 comes to your Board with a recommendation for denial (on a three to zero vote with one Committee Member absent and one Committee member abstained) from the Agricultural Land Conservation Committee (ALCC) based on the Committee's inability to make Finding Nos. 2, 3, and 5 of the five required findings listed under Government Code, Section 51282(b). This item pertains to a location in District 5.
This petition for partial contract cancellation was filed in conjunction with Pre-Application for Certificate of Compliance (PCOC) Application No. 3535 proposing to allow the creat...
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