Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Steve Monowitz, Community Development Director
Subject: County-Initiated Notice of Non-Renewal of California Land Conservation Contracts
County File Number: PLN 2017-00400
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the Planning and Building Department to file a Notice of Non-Renewal of California Land Conservation Contracts (en masse) pursuant to the San Mateo County Land Conservation (Williamson Act) Uniform Rules and Procedures for the identified parcels.
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BACKGROUND:
In 2013, the Board of Supervisors adopted the San Mateo County Land Conservation (Williamson) Act Uniform Rules and Procedures (Program) under which the Planning and Building Department (Department) administers the Program and performs audits to ensure contract compliance. The Program requires ongoing commercial agriculture and allows agriculturally compatible uses (e.g., single-family residences) to a limited extent on contracted lands.
In March 2017, the Department received the annual Agricultural Preserve Questionnaire data from the Assessor's Office for contract compliance review. For the 2017-2018 calendar year, the Department is focusing on grazing operations as part of the Department's compliance review. As such, the Department has selected to review those questionnaires in which landowners identified either grazing or no agricultural activity.
In June 2017, staff mailed letters to affected landowners. For landowners that had identified grazing as the relevant agricultural activity, the Department requested that the landowners provide documentation demonstrating the existence of a commercial grazing operation as outlined in the Program. Landowners that did not identify any agricultural use on the questionnaire were asked to submit documentation of any qualifying commercial agricultural use. The Department sent subsequent letters in August 20...
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