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Marion County Building commented: “No Building Inspection concerns with property line adjustment. Permit(s) are required to be obtained prior to development and utilities installation on private property.” Marion County Assessor’s Office provided information regarding taxes on the subject properties. All other contacted agencies either failed to comment or stated no objection to the proposal. 7. The criteria for reviewing lot line adjustments within an EFU zone are listed in Chapter 17.136.090(C) MCC. These criteria are as follows: 1. When one or more lots or parcels subject to a proposed property line adjustment are larger than the minimum parcel size pursuant to subsection (A)(1) of this section, the same number of lots or parcels shall be as large or larger than the minimum parcel size after the adjustment. When all lots or parcels subject to the proposed adjustment are as large or larger than the minimum parcel size, no lot or parcel shall be reduced below the applicable minimum parcel size. If all lots or parcels are smaller than th e minimum parcel size before the property line adjustment, the minimum parcel size pursuant to this section does not apply to those lots or parcels. Neither of the parcels involved in the proposal are larger than the minimum parcel size, nor will either parcel be brought above the minimum parcel size. The criterion does not apply. 2. If the minimum parcel size in subsection (A)(1) of this section is larger than 80 acres, and a lot or parcel subject to property line adjustment is smaller than the minimum parcel size but larger than 80 acres, the lot or parcel shall not be reduced in size through property line adjustment to less than 80 acres. Neither of the parcels involved in the proposal are over the minimum parcel size to start, therefore the criterion does not apply. 3. Any property line adjustment shall result in a configuration of lots or parcels that are at least as suitable for commercial agriculture as were the parcels prior to the adjustment. Of the two parcels involved in the proposal, only one (tax lot 800) is currently utilized for commercial agriculture. The applicants are proposing to transfer 0.63-acres of the farmland to the smaller parcel to provide space for residential accessory structures. The applicants state that the proposed configuration would maintain an efficient parcel shape for farming and the adjusted area takes into account potential setback requirements from property lines. The proposed property line is a straight line, which does result in an efficient shape for tractors and harvesters to follow. Since the proposal will keep the existing farm parcel in an efficient shape for farming, and the area transferred is less than 3% of the existing farm parcel, the new configuration will be just as suitable for farming as the original configuration. The criterion is met. 4. A property line adjustment may not be used to: a. Decrease the size of a lot or parcel that, before the relocation or elimination of the common property line, is smaller than the minimum lot or parcel size for the applicable zone and contains an existing dwelling or is approved for the construction of a dwelling, if the abutting vacant tract would be increased to a size as large as or larger than the minimum tract size required to qualify the vacant tract for a dwelling; b. Decrease the size of a lot or parcel that contains an existing dwelling or is approved for construction of a dwelling to a size smaller than the minimum lot or parcel size, if the abutting vacant tract would be increased to a size as large as or larger tha n the minimum tract size required to qualify the vacant tract for a dwelling; c. Allow an area of land used to qualify a tract for a dwelling based on an acreage standard to be used to qualify another tract for a dwelling if the land use approval would be based on an acreage standard; or