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� v <br /> A/G to R/R. The applicant states that the purpose of changing the General Plan would <br /> be to subdivide the remaining large parcel into 2-acre parcels. <br /> General Plan Issues <br /> In order to approve the General Plan Amendment, the Board of Supervisors will have to <br /> determine that the internal consistency of the General Plan is maintained in the adoption <br /> of the proposed General Plan Amendment. The Community Development Department <br /> has reviewed the proposed General Plan Amendment pre-application and offers the <br /> following comments: <br /> 2 Residential Development (Volume I p IV-18) <br /> Policy 1. (a) Rural Residential: <br /> (3) Locational Criteria: Appropriate in rural communities and only for areas of existing <br /> rural residential densities in urban communities. <br /> • The proposed General Plan Amendment request does not appear to meet the <br /> locational criteria listed for rural residential development. The parcels proposed for <br /> amendment are not located within an existing rural or urban community. <br /> A Community Organization and Development Patterns (Volume I p. IV-4 through 6) <br /> Objective 3. To minimize the effect on agricultural lands and other environmental <br /> resources while providing for orderly growth. <br /> • The proposed General Plan Amendment appears to be inconsistent with this <br /> objective of the General Plan because it will create disorderly residential growth in <br /> the center of an established agricultural area. <br /> Policy 5. Development shall be orderly and compact. <br /> • The proposed General Plan Amendment appears to be inconsistent with this policy <br /> because the amendment would result in a cluster of residential development in the <br /> center of an agricultural area outside of existing rural and/or urban communities. <br /> Policy 7. Residential, commercial, and industrial development shall be shown on <br /> the General Plan Map only in communities identified [in the General <br /> Plan], except in the following instances: <br /> (a) contiguous, industrial expansion of existing industrial areas; <br /> (b) Freeway Service areas; <br /> (c) Commercial Recreations areas; or <br /> (d) Truck Terminal areas. <br /> • The proposed General Plan Amendment appears to be inconsistent with this policy <br /> because it proposes a residential designation and future residential development <br /> 2 <br />