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developments had made most of the property attractive for vineyard <br /> development similar to the adjacent properties to the east and <br /> south. <br /> Catwil Corporation, whose owners had been looking for <br /> several years for a site in San Joaquin County for the development <br /> of a championship golf course and a small residential community <br /> were contacted and, as a cash bidder with a development plan which <br /> was attractive to the Brovelli family, bought the 870 acre piece, <br /> agreeing to lease back a portion of the property for vineyard <br /> usage by the Brovelli family for $1 per year. Ownership of the <br /> property was subsequently transferred to Buckeye Ranch L.P. , a <br /> California Limited Partnership. Catwil Corporation remains as a <br /> general partner of the partnership, and prospective residents of <br /> the project are the limited partners. <br /> Catwil Corporation initiated site development plans <br /> which it believed were consistent with the Williamson Act, as well <br /> as with general plan and zoning designations for the property and <br /> its remarkable resources. It employed Weiskopf and Morrish, <br /> perhaps the world's leading golf course architects, to design a <br /> championship golf course for the site, employing a "links" concept <br /> that maximizes the use of existing contouring and natural features <br /> of the site, and minimizes turfed (irrigated) areas. Weiskopf and <br /> Morrish's design did place four of the eighteen holes partially or <br /> entirely within the heavily forested area of the property, <br /> although one of them (No. 12) would utilize a former oxbow of the <br /> Mokelumne River which was not forested. <br /> Wm Act Cancellation —2— <br /> June 8, 1993 <br />