County Farm Bureau sues to protect coastal farmland
Coastsidearea, shesaid, byeliminatingob- stacles thatmight otherwise slowefforts to subdivide coastal land for recreation. The county Farm Bureau opposed the amendments throughout the process, Meservesaid, andsuggestedalternatives to reachthe recreational goalswithoutharm- ing the future of Coastside agriculture. SanMateoCountyapprovedtheamend- ments last summer; theCaliforniaCoastal Commission concurred in January. The Farm Bureau lawsuit said the amendments violate protections for agri- culturecontained in theCaliforniaCoastal
Act of 1976, andwould result in potential- ly significant environmental impacts on agriculture and other resources for which mitigation is requiredunder theCalifornia Environmental Quality Act. SanMateoCountyFarmBureauPresident BJ Burns said the FarmBureau board took the legal action toprotect agricultural land. “The amendments allow subdivision without a permanent conservation ease- ment toprotectagricultureandopenspace values,” Burns said. “When subdivisions occur on agricultural land, unsustainable parcels are often created.”
TheSanMateoCountyFarmBureauhas sued the California Coastal Commission, asserting that a change to a Local Coastal Plan violates protections for agriculture. The suit, filed thismonth inSacramento County Superior Court, involves amend- ments to the Local Coastal Plan tomodify San Mateo County’s approval require- ments for public agency landdivisions for
public recreationwithin theCoastal Zone. OshaMeserve, theattorneyrepresenting the county FarmBureau, said the amend- ments had been suggested early last year by theMidpeninsulaRegionalOpenSpace District and the Peninsula Open Space Trust. The amendments would make it easier forpublicentities todevelop low-in- tensity public recreational projects in the
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March 17, 2021 Ag Alert 9
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