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There are very few non-Williamson Act contracted <br /> properties of equivalent size, or groups of parcels <br /> totalling this size, which remain available for <br /> similar-type development in this area of the City. <br /> The project site has unique features such as its <br /> bearing a portion of the development of the Bernal <br /> Avenue extension, its adding to neighborhood park <br /> land in an area presently under-served with <br /> improved parkland, the "looping" of several local <br /> streets which are presently overly long de facto <br /> culs-de-sac, and the installation of a <br /> long-designated north-south major collector street. <br /> Development for the proposed purposes on <br /> non-contracted land would not provide any of the <br /> above benefits. As this site is contiguohs to <br /> existing development and a logical extension of it, <br /> no development on non-contracted lands could <br /> provide any more contiguous pattern of development; <br /> indeed, in many circumstances, such development <br /> would be in a less contiguous pattern of <br /> development. <br /> <br /> b. Finding that Cancellation is in the Public Interest <br /> <br /> Cancellation of the Agreement shall be found by your Council <br /> to be in the public interest only if you can make the <br /> following two findings: <br /> <br /> 1. That other public concerns substantially outweigh <br /> the objectives of the Williamson Act. <br /> <br /> The relevant objectives of the Williamson Act are, <br />· in summary, as follows: (1) preservation of limited <br /> agricultural land to maintain the agricultural <br /> economy of the state and adequate food for the <br /> future; (2) discouragement of premature and <br /> unnecessary conversion of agricultural land to <br /> urban uses benefits urban dwellers as it <br /> discourages discontiguous patterns of development <br /> which increase costs of community services; and (3) <br /> agricultural lands have value as open space, <br /> constituting an important physical, social, <br /> esthetic, and economic asset to existing and <br /> pending urban developments. <br /> <br /> The objectives as they relate to this project are <br /> not overwhelmingly significant. The benefits of <br /> the proposed project clearly offset each of the <br /> relevant objectives. The project will construct, <br /> at no expense to existing urban dwellers, portions <br /> of several needed thoroughfares. It will add <br /> housing consistent with the City's growth <br /> management plan and to off-set the jobs/housing <br /> <br /> SR:86:418 <br /> <br /> <br />