Legal Opinion
Building Industry Ass'n v. County of Stanislaus
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 29, 2010No. F058826PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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LEVY, P. J.
In December 2007, appellants, the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors (Board) and the County of Stanislaus (County), adopted an update to the agricultural element of the County’s general plan. At issue in this appeal is one component of this update, the Farmland Mitigation Program (FMP).
The FMP is designed to aid in mitigating the loss of farmland resulting from residential development by requiring the permanent protection of farmland through agricultural conservation easements granted in perpetuity. The FMP implementation guidelines provide that farmland mitigation shall…
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