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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. The current configuration of parcels includes one parcel (tax lot 200) which is currently too small to be a viable commercial farm parcel, and a larger parcel (tax lot 100) which has historically been farmed but was recently reduced in size due to the execution of a Measure 49 waiver (P24-004). Tax lot 100 is still suitable for commercial agriculture in its current configuration, so it must remain as suitable for commercial agriculture as before. The proposed configuration would site the new 2.5-acre parcel, which is able to construct a dwelling due to the approval of a replacement dwelling case AR24-027, next to the 2 lots that were created through case P24-004. This will cluster all the non-farm related dwellings together. While the new 2.5-acre lot will be located in an area previously utilized as a farm field, the clustering of dwellings and properties not involved in farming is preferable, and is even stated in the Primary Agriculture designation description in the Marion County Comprehensive Plan: Only where there is a tight cluster of a number of small parcels that are developed or committed to non- farm-related residential or other developments are such areas considered appropriate for designation for location of other non-farm uses and justifiable as exceptions to the agricultural goal (II. Goals and Policies, Agricultural Lands, Primary Agriculture). Additionally, the new 2.5-acre parcel is not larger than needed to allow for a new dwelling, drainfield and replacement drainfield. The remaining farm field area will still be in a contiguous shape that allows it to be farmed as a single unit, which is a preferable configuration still as suitable for commercial agriculture as the existing configuration. The subject proposal, while removing some of the farmland from the main farm parcel, is still justifiable due to the proposed clustering and continuing contiguity of the remaining farmable area. 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; Both parcels involved in this proposal have approvals for dwellings through approved land use cases for replacement dwellings. No vacant tracts would be qualified for a dwelling through this proposal because they already are both approved for dwellings. The criterion is met. 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; Both parcels involved in this proposal have approvals for dwellings through approved land use cases for replacement dwellings. No vacant tracts would be qualified for a dwelling through this proposal because they already are both approved for dwellings. The criterion is met. 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 None of the acreage within the subject parcels has been used to qualify a tract of land for a dwelling. Therefore, the criterion is met. d. Adjust a property line that resulted from a subdivision or partition authorized by a Measure 49 waiver so that any lawfully established unit of land affected by the property line adjustment is larger than the size granted by the waiver.