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r Letter from Alva & Associates, dated January 219 1988. 11 . The Draft EIR acknowledges that the application for the proposed project was submitted prior to adoption of the County ' s rw current development policies and thus is not subject to the current development requirements for Rural Residential Areas. (Please refer to pages 6 and 28 of the Final EIR . ) The point that this project is to be reviewed in the context of the County ' s previous development has been further clarified in the discussion t on Zoning in the Final ETR . The phrase "allowable option" as used in the Draft EIR is correct in that the County Board of Supervisors has the option to -+ require public systems as a condition of project approval based on information contained in the Final EIR . 12. The intent of this principle is to limit existing rural residential areas from encroaching into agricultural lands. The proposed project does not conform to this principle in that approval of the proposed General Plan Amendment and Zone 1 Reclassification would represent an extension of the Morada Rural Residential Area and would provide the impetus for future encroachment of residential uses into agricultural lands. 13. Please refer to textual changes in the discussion of this principle on page 23 of the Final EIR . 14 . With respect to the comm enter ' s statement that the General �f Plan Amendment is for the purpose of making the project consistent with this principle, it should be recognized that the proposed project is to amend the Land Use and Circulation Element Map of the County General Plan. Approval of the proposed GPA would facilitate the development of the underlying project. While the r ' purpose of the GPA is to bring the underlying project into conformance with the Land Use and Circulation Element Map, approval of the GPA would be inconsistent with this principle as it would directly result in the outward expansion of the Morada Rural Residential Area. 15 . While we concur that the purpose of the proposed GPA is to bring the underlying project into conformance with the County ,. General Plan, approval of the proposed GPA would be inconsistent with this principle for it would result in the expansion of rural residential uses into agricultural lands and would have growth- .. inducing effects which could lead to further fragmentation of agriculturally zoned lands. 16. Refer to response #14 and #15 . 17. The projected nitrate-nitrogen concentration of 4. 0 mg/l as stated in the Draft EIR was in error. The results of the analysis conducted for the Draft EIR indicated that projected long-term nitrate-nitrogen concentration would be 6.5 mg/1 . The text of the Final EIR has been revised to reflect the correct projected 4 nitrate-nitrogen concentration. 18