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PROPOSED SOUTH LIVERMORE VALLEY PLAN January 4, 1991 Page 6 2. Mitigation Fees: Urban development creates several adverse impacts on agriculture, including the irreplaceable loss of prime farmland and restrictions on agriculture due to conflicts between residential and agricultural uses as well as increased development pressures. In addition, the loss of agricultural land and open space deprives the entire community of a valuable ecologic~] and aesthetic resource. To mitigate these impacts, a fee shall be placed on all residential development initiated in the plan area as follows: LAND CLASSIFICATION FEE PER DWELLING UN1T (SUGGESTED) Conditionally Developable Land and $10,000 Residential Development on Agricultural Parcels Urbanized Cultivable Land 1 $30,000 Gateway Area Land $2,500 Mitigation fees shall also be imposed on commercial development in the study area. Fees shall be computed at $2.50 per square foot total floor area for commercial facilities (excluding wineries and other agricultural structures). Minimum fees per commercial facility shah be $10,000 (suggested). Cities should be encouraged to establish similar fee programs to mitigate both impacts of annexation and development of cultivable land and impacts of that development on adjacent agricultural operations. Mitigation fees shall accrue in an Agricultural Trust to be established by Alameda County as set forth below. 3. _Agricultural Land Trust: Alameda County shah establish an agricultural land trust in the South Livemore Valley. The trust shall be an autonomous non-profit corporation. The County of Alameda, the City of Pleasanton, and the City of Livemore shah have appointment authority to the governing body of the trust. The trust shall be formed to carry out the public objectives 1 Credit for cultivable lands replaced on an acre-for-acre basis with conditionally developable lands being placed in agricultural production through improvement and installation of vineyards or comparable agricultural uses and dedication of agricultural conservation easements should be given. A per-acre credit of $20,000 is suggested.