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parcel size before the property line adjustment, the minimum parcel size pursuant to this section does not apply to those lots or parcels. The minimum parcel size of both the EFU and FT zones is 80-acres. This proposal involves one parcel currently over the 80-acre minimum and one parcel below the 80-acre minimum. As a result of this proposal, the smaller parcel will decrease in size and the larger parcel will increase in size, ending with the same number of lots or parcels above and below the minimum parcel size that currently exist. Therefore, the criterion is met. 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. The current proposal will not result in a decrease of the lot or parcel already larger than 80-acres. Rather, the only parcel larger than 80-acres will increase as a result of the proposal. Therefore, the criterion is met. 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 area proposed for transfer is intended to be used to increase the size of the farming operation on the larger parcel. It was also previously a wood lot and not part of any farming operation already existing on the smaller parcel, so it will not remove any of the land currently in agricultural production from the smaller property. Therefore, the parcels will be just as suitable for agriculture as they were prior to the adjustment. 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 subject parcels already contain a dwelling, so there is no vacant parcel involved in this proposal. Therefore, 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 subject parcels already contain a dwelling, so there is no vacant parcel involved in this proposal. Therefore, 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 One of the two parcels was the subject of a primary farm dwelling approval and has a house approved with specific acreage. However, the parcel that is decreasing in size as a result of this proposal has a dwelling that was constructed prior to the adoption of modern planning and zoning ordinances, so the acreage being transferred was not used to previously qualify a tract of land for a dwelling. If the 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. None of the subject lots or parcels was part of a Measure 49 waiver. The criterion is met.