County approves multiple agricultural‑preserve amendments and new contracts after staff corrections

The Board of Supervisors held a series of public hearings and approved multiple amendments to agricultural preserves and related contracts after planning staff identified omitted portions of several legal parcels and recommended corrections. Bernadette Sisson, associate planner, presented six separate applications from landowners seeking new single‑property contracts or amendments to existing active‑reserve contracts. For each application staff recommended the board determine the project exempt pursuant to section 15317, amend the existing active reserve to remove the subject property and create a new active reserve containing only the subject property, resen[d] the property from the existing contracts and issue a single contract for the property. Key items approved on the record included: - ARCRS LLC: staff recommended including an omitted 0.8‑acre portion so the legal parcel is entirely under contract, bringing the new preserve to 274 acres. - Miss Mary Grow Rich (application for 960 acres): staff recommended adding a previously omitted 7.5‑acre portion so the entire legal parcel is included in the contract. - Mentor family / Wayne Smith contract amendment: staff recommended creating a new 380.15‑acre active reserve for the subject property (exemption under section 15317). - Bobo Catelli / Indian Point Ranch and 1916 West Chris Road LLC: staff recommended creating two new preserves, one of about 160 acres and another of about 249 acres, and issuing separate contracts for each farm. - Doug Hale / Hailberry: staff recommended adding an omitted 34‑acre portion (a 4% increase) and creating a new 866.54‑acre preserve and single contract for the parcel. For each agenda item, the clerk reported minimal returned notices and no in‑person proponents or opponents on the record; staff confirmed no rebuttals were presented and the public hearings were closed before motions were made. Board members moved, seconded and voted to approve the staff recommendations for each application; roll‑call votes recorded ayes for supervisors present on each item. Distinctions: these actions are ministerial land‑use contract amendments and not changes to zoning; each motion adopted a resolution to amend active reserves and issue a single contract for the subject parcel as described in staff recommendations. The record shows corrections to agenda worksheets to include omitted acreage and a procedural confirmation that noticing was sufficient. Ending: Staff provided copies of the adopted documents to supervisors before adjournment; no appeals or public protests were recorded in the hearing portions included in the transcript.