(a) 
This article makes provisions to establish, expand, disestablish, or reduce an Agricultural Preserve boundary and/or establish, non-renew, or cancel a Land Conservation Contract in conformance with the California Land Conservation Act of 1965 for the preservation and management of Agricultural lands. All the activities listed above require a public hearing by both the Planning Commission and the City Council except the establishment and the non-renewal by the City of a Land Conservation Contract, which shall be heard by the Council without any hearing before the Planning Commission.
(b) 
Procedure: Public Hearing.
(c) 
Reviewing authority: City Council with Planning Commission recommendation.
(d) 
Prior to action on a request for cancellation of a Land Conservation Contract, the land owner must pay a cancellation fee equal to 12.5% of the cancellation value of the land, plus any deferred tax amount.
(e) 
Prior to cancellation of a Land Conservation Contract the reviewing authority shall make one of the following findings.
(1) 
That the cancellation is consistent with the purposes of the Williamson Act.
(2) 
That the cancellation is in the public interest.
(a) 
Cancellation of a contract shall be consistent with the purposes of the Williamson Act only if the City Council makes all of the following findings.
(1) 
That the cancellation is for land on which a notice of nonrenewal has been served pursuant to Section 51245 of the California Government Code.
(2) 
That the cancellation is not likely to result in the removal of adjacent lands from agricultural use.
(3) 
That the cancellation is for an alternative use which is consistent with the applicable provisions of the City’s General Plan.
(4) 
The cancellation will not result in discontinuous patterns of urban development.
(5) 
That 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.
(b) 
Cancellation of a contract shall be in the public interest only if the City Council makes both of the following findings.
(1) 
That other public concerns substantially outweigh the objectives of the Williamson Act.
(2) 
That 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.