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GRUPE September 11, 2013 Ms. Kerry Sullivan, Director Ms. Corinne King, Senior Planner Community Development Department, San Joaquin County 1810 E. Hazelton Ave. Stockton, CA 95205 Re: Agricultural Mitigation for Love's Travel Center Dear Ms. Sullivan and Ms. King, Thank you for the recent meeting regarding the Love's Travel Center Agricultural Mitigation. This letter is a follow up to that meeting, and a request to bring this matter before the Board of Supervisors at the earliest possible time. General Plan Amendment No. PA-10000183 and Zone Reclassification No. PA-1000184 were approved in March of 2011 and subsequently Use Permit Application No. PA-1000131 was approved on February 12, 2013. The conditions of the Use Permit, General Plan and Zone reclassification approvals require that pursuant to Development Title Section 9-1245.2 the 5.06 acres of this project that were changed from Agricultural Zoning to Commercial-Freeway Service Zoning in 2011 be mitigated on a 1:1 basis. The balance of the project was zoned Commercial Freeway Service prior to adoption of the Agricultural Mitigation Ordinance. On March 22, 2013, I emailed your office and inquired about the process for mitigation. On March 29, 2013, you responded with the procedures for mitigation. As I understood the procedures, Love's was to make a reasonable effort to obtain an agricultural easement of 5.06 acres and offer that easement to the County as mitigation. If Love's was unable to obtain such an easement and provided your office with evidence of their effort,there is an opportunity to bring this matter before the Board of Supervisors and request that the Board allow Love's to pay a fee in-lieu of dedicating an easement. The purpose of this letter is to make such a request. As you may know, Love's Travel Centers is headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK, and so I offered to assist Love's in their effort to find an agricultural easement. Mr. Rick Shuffield of Love's authorized me to undertake such an effort on their behalf. The following outlines my effort and in addition to making the request to the Board that Love's be allowed to pay the in-lieu fee. At the end of this letter, I also offer some thoughts and suggestions for amendments to the current County Ordinance regarding Agricultural Mitigation. I would also note that I was appointed to the County Agricultural Mitigation Technical Advisory Board and am somewhat familiar with much of the history of this ordinance. GRUPE COMMERCIAL COMPANY 3255 West March Lane, Stockton, CA 95219 • P.O. Box 7576, Stockton, CA 95267-0576 ')nntav;-r.9nn . P; ')nnis7a_fnm