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Contra
FROM: SUPERVISOR TOM POWERS
Costa
County
June 4, 1991 Py; "`•;�°
DATE:
Protection of the Briones Hills Preservation Area
SUBJECT:
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
I. That the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County directs the
Director of Community Development to develop draft guidelines for the
continued preservation of the Briones Hills.
1. The guidelines should acknowledge the Briones Hills Preservation
Agreement and encourage each city which is party to the agreement to
include an urban limit line or other form of protection in their
General Plans.
2. The guidelines should also include provisions for conservation
easements to ensure that there is preservation of the rural nature
of the Briones Hills in perpetuity.
3. Once the draft guidelines are developed, they should be discussed by
the county and the eight cities which are party to the Briones Hills
Preservation Area Agreement.
II. That. the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County authorize the
Chair of the Board to approach the East Bay Municipal Utility District to
donate a conservation easement for its property within the Briones Hills
Preservation Area. Such easement should be made to the nine parties to
the agreement and could not be amended without the unanimous consent of
all of the parties.
BACKGROUND:
Recently, there have been various discussions by cities to annex areas
within the Briones Hills Preservation Area as a means of ensuring the
continued protection of this area against future development. The parties
to the original agreement should continue the orderly process already
established by developing further guidelines to govern the future of this
area. The county has included the Briones Hills Preservation Agreement
into its General Plan. Urban Limit Lines and Conservation Easements must
be considered as more substantive ways of protecting this area.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON June 4 1991 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
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VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS(ABSENT IV ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORSO THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: Community Development ATTESTED T /99,/County Administrator PHIL ATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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