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An alternative to leaving the LDRs as they are is to amend the LDRs to allow for <br />affidavits of exemption outside the Urban Service Area, subject to special criteria. Such <br />cnteria could include paved access or maximum distance to paved roads, or a stricter <br />limitation on the total number of parcels created by an affidavit of exemption or <br />aggregation of exemptions (reduced from the current 49 parcel maximum). <br />The basic policy issue is whether or not the Board wishes to make it easier to create + 5 <br />acre parcels on agriculturally designated lands If it does, then the affidavit of exemption <br />process is an option the Board should reconsider, subject to whatever access standards, <br />total parcel limitation, or other criteria the Board would wish to tie to affidavits of <br />exemption on agriculturally designated lands. <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Staff recommends that the Board deteimine whether or not to direct staff to initiate <br />changes to the existing affidavit of exemption regulations. <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />1. Draft Minutes from the December 4, 2001 BCC meeting <br />2. Minutes from the October 23, 2001 BCC meeting <br />3. LDR Section 913.06(5) <br />4. Affidavit of Exemption and Agricultural P.D. Statistics Chart <br />5. Affidavit of Exemption "Project Sites" Maps <br />6. Sample Affidavit of Exemption Documents and Survey <br />Planning Director Stan Boling reviewed the Memorandum and noted that the 1983 <br />regulations provided for several ways to subdivide a single-family parcel without platting <br />and without providing formal improvements such as paved roads, utilities and formal <br />drainage systems: (1) creation of 40 -acre tracts; (2) one-time lot splits; and (3) affidavits of <br />exemption upon Board approval. In June of 2001 the County's Comprehensive Plan was <br />amended to allow agricultural properties to be subdivided by (1) agricultural PDs; (2) <br />conventional subdivisions; and (3) affidavits of exemption. On October 23, 2001 the Board <br />removed the affidavit of exemption option. The affidavit of exemption process was allowed <br />JANUARY 22, 2002 <br />