(A) Pending applications.
(1) Pending matters; Planning Commission action; stayed. Any matter before the Planning Commission involving a determination under this article or the act shall be deemed incomplete and shall be held until a final determination of the question arising under this article or under the act.
(2) Exceptions. An application to subdivide land under an LCA contract which will terminate in one year or less may be deemed complete and may be considered by the Planning Commission. However, if the application is approved, no structures shall be built nor shall the use of the property be altered until the LCA contract terminates, nor can a final map be filed.
(B) Board administration regulations. The Board shall have authority to enact uniform rules by resolution for the administration of the preserves.
(C) Terminology. Unless the context otherwise requires language indicating singular includes the plural, and the language specifying the masculine includes the feminine.
(D) Payment of funds. No payment of public funds will be made as a part of consideration for the entering into of any agreement authorized by the act.
(E) Legal non-conforming agricultural preserves. Unless the agricultural preserve is in non- renewal status, all agricultural preserves and compatible uses existing at the operative date of the ordinance codified in this article, shall remain an appropriate agricultural preserve, notwithstanding the failure to meet minimum requirements. However, all agricultural preserves preexisting this article shall continue in commercial production of agricultural commodities. The owner of a legal non-conforming agricultural preserve shall comply with this article if the owner divides or otherwise alters the existing agricultural preserve.
(1966 Code, § 18A-7) (Ord. 582, § 2(part))