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State of Cslilorria Natural Resources Agency Edmund G Brown Jr.,Govemor Department d Conservation John R Lowrie,Assistard Director Division of Land Resource Protection 801 K Street-MS 18.01 Sacramerto,CA 95814 (916)324-0850•FAX(916)327-3430 July 10, 2015 VIA EMAIL: MHATEF@SJGOV.GOV Ms. Mo Hatef San Joaquin County Community Development Department 1810 East Hazelton Avenue Stockton, CA 95205 Dear Ms. Mo Hatef: REVISED COMMENT: SEQUENTIAL PARCEL LOT LINE ADJUSTMENTS ON PROPERTY UNDER CONSERVATION CONTRACT; APPLICATIONS PA-1500106 (LA), PA-15001.08 (LA), AND PA-1500109 (LA) The Department of Conservation's (Department) Division of Land Resource Protection (Division) has reviewed the lot line adjustment (LLA) applications submitted by San Joaquin County. The Division monitors farmland conversion on a statewide basis and administers the California Land Conservation (Williamson) Act and other agricultural land conservation programs. We offer the following revised comments to our original letter date July 6, 2015. Project Description The proposed lot line adjustments were submitted as three separate applications, for a combined total of seven adjusted parcel boundaries'. The lot line adjustments will occur on properties under a Williamson Act contract. The adjustments will create multiple homesite parcels within the agricultural zone, that will no longer be subject to the contract, as well as a number of parcels less than the 40 acre minimum zoning. Department Comments Because of the limited information provided in the application referrals, the Department requests that the findings required in Government Code (GC) § 51527 of the Land Conservation Act be addressed in the staff report(s). The proposed LLAs contain several areas of existing Williamson Act contracted land that will be reconfigured and reclassified as non-contracted land. In doing so, it is recommended that special attention be paid to GC § 51257(a)(2)-(4), and (7), which address specific requirements that these types of modifications must meet. The staff report(s) should evaluate the applications under GC § 51257 in terms of their overall impact, given that multiple nonconforming parcels, including homesite parcels, will result from the chain of adjustments. Finally, the Department recommends that the current contract be rescinded and simultaneously entered into new contract pursuant to GC § 51527. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to comment on the proposed lot line adjustment applications. Please provide this Department with notices of any future hearing dates as well as any staff reports pertaining to this project. It you have any questions regarding our comments, ' Assessor Parcel Numbers: 055-070-13, 055-070-26, 055-070-38, 055-150-07, 055-150-20,055-150-23, and 055-140-12.