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Resolution No. 04-096 Page 4 Ce Cancellation is for an alternative use, which is consistent with the applicable provisions of the City' s General Plan. The alternative use as depicted in the approved PUD plan and Tentative Map are consistent with the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan and the City's General Plan. In the Resolution Approving Vesting Tentative Map 7385 the City specifically found that the proposed development was consistent with the intent and requirements of the General Plan and Specific Plan, and that it substantially conformed to the zoning regulations/development plan for the area Cancellation will not result in discontinuous patterns of urban development. Cancellation will allow the development of the property which development has been approved as being consistent with the General Plan and the Specific Plan that was adopted by the City Council for the purpose of providing continuity in the pattern of the development of the Vineyard Avenue Corridor. The Specific Plan and subsequent approval of the PUD Plan and Tentative Map and related Development Agreement are the essential tools in making the development of this portion of Pleasanton continuous and consistent with the City's General Plan. Eo There is no proximate noncontracted land which is both available and suitable for the use to which it is proposed the contracted land be put, or, that development of the contracted land would provide more contiguous patterns of urban development than development of proximate noncontracted land. The development of the contracted land would provide more contiguous patterns of urban development than development of proximate noncontracted land as the subject land is within the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan area and designated and zoned for development consistent therewith. 16. Cancellation of the Williamson Act for the RMC property is in the public interest based on each of the following findings: Ao That other public concerns substantially outweigh the objectives of the Williamson Act. The relevant objectives of the Williamson Act are, in summary, as follows: (a) preservation of limited agricultural land to maintain the agricultural economy of the state and adequate food for the future; (b) discouragement of premature and unnecessary conversion of agricultural land to urban uses benefits urban dwellers as it discourages discontinuous patterns of development which increase costs of community services; and (c) agricultural lands have value as open space constituting an important physical, social, esthetics, and economic asset to existing and pending urban developments.