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• It does not allow farmers to sell the ranch and keep the home. • The benefits of the previous provisions outweighed the abuses. • The new ordinance will create clouds on parcels and court judgments. • The existing ordinance should be revised to allow one homesite for any existing parcel and to make it saleable right away. Tony Taro (29116 E. Dodds Rd. , Escalon) objected to the proposed ordinance. He said that farmers should be allowed to retain their homesites. Al Costa (7511 E. Woodbridge Rd. , Acampo) said he is a farmer and wants to create a parcel for his daughter. He objected to the proposed ordinance. PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED Chair Carter commented that this Text Amendment is being heard because therelhas been considerable abuse of the parcel map provisions. Comm. Morri said he believes that trying to weigh parcel map requests against the intent of the person requesting it is not appropriate for the Planning Commission. He suggested this proposal be sent back to the Subcommittee. Comm. Fortney said that he is a banker and is concerned about financing of parcels. He said he has talked with title companies and the proposed text amendment would cloud property titles. He said he also had some concerns about protecting the rights of legitimate farmers. He suggested the matter be sent back to the Subcommittee. Comm. Jungeblut said he has seen and heard all types of lot split proposals and he did not want to be a judge and jury as to intent. The previous regulations were not fair to anybody. There is a problem for the legitimate farmer, but he could not make determina- tions as to whether a person is or is not a legitimate farmer. He said he wanted criteria to work with; and he wanted to be fair to everybody. Mr. McGrew said that criteria cannot be arbitrarily or it is illegal. He said the question of clouding the title should be considered by the Subcommittee. MOTION: Moved, seconded (Morri-Fortney) and carried by a vote of 6-0 to continue this item to October 7, 1993 with the hearing open to consider new criteria; and to refer the matter back to the Ordinance Subcommittee. -3d-