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PROPOSED FINDINGS FOR WILLIAMSON ACT CONTRACT CANCELLATION (GOVERNMENT CODE §51282(a)(1)): 1. If the Board of Supervisors has not previously determined pursuant to the request already made by the applicant that the proposed use of the property is not a proper "open space use" within the meaning of Government Code §512010) and (o) as a wildlife habitat area, after consulting with and considering the recommendation of the Department of Fish and Game, the applicant will file and serve a Notice of Non-Renewal of the existing contract, at least as to that portion of the property which would no longer be devoted to a "compatible use". 2. The cancellation is not likely to result in the removal of adjacent lands from agriculture use because: a. The land subject to the cancellation being largely in a relatively natural, uncleared and untended state, is of a different character than the adjacent farm lands, such that the cancellation should not be viewed as precedent-setting as to such lands. b. The proposed level of development and usage is such as would otherwise be permissable with the existing agriculture General Plan designation and zoning of the property. C. The proposed uses of the land will not be such as would affect adversely the continued grazing and vineyard uses of the adjacent agriculture lands. 3. The uses to which the land would be devoted under the proposal (26-residence development within a Planned District, golf course, irrigated pasture and vineyard, and nature preserve) are consistent with the applicable provision of the County General Plan (general agriculture, resource conservation area). 4. The cancellation will not result in discontiguous patterns of urban development because the character and density of the proposed development, being consistent with the agriculture designation of the property, is not itself "urban", and should not, because of the unique character of the property and the restrictions in perpetuity which the Conservation Easement applicable to it will impose, spawn urban development of adjacent property. 5. There is no proximate non-contracted land which is both available and suitable for the combination of uses to which it is proposed the contracted land be put.