AAC approves Pescadero lot‑line adjustment after discussion of conservation and water access

The San Mateo County Agricultural Advisory Committee recommended approval of a lot‑line adjustment in Pescadero intended to correct a building that was constructed across an existing property boundary.

Planner Olivia Boo explained the proposal: a lot‑line adjustment would transfer the footprint of an agricultural building and two wells to align legal parcel boundaries and maintain continued agricultural use and tree propagation. The adjustment was presented as preserving agricultural use on parcel A and formalizing an existing condition.

Committee members raised procedural and substantive questions: whether a conservation easement should accompany a PAD (Planned Agricultural District) lot‑line adjustment for smaller parcels, the implications for water rights when two wells move to one site, and whether the applicant should be present to answer technical questions. Some members recommended tabling to allow applicants to attend; others moved to approve the item "as written."

A motion to approve as written passed by a hand/voice count; Chair recorded approximately five in favor and two opposed with one recusal noted. Members asked staff to verify water resource implications and any required conservation easement documentation as the file proceeds to the Planning Commission.