NR 425 questions with accurate answers
"feasible" Ans✓✓✓ capable of being accomplished in a successful
manner within a reasonable period of time, taking into account
economic, environmental, legal, social, and technological factors."
**money
Adaptive Management Ans✓✓✓ - to adapt over time to achieve the
objectives
- four step process
- spectrum of performance standards
Aesthetic resources Ans✓✓✓ Aesthetics generally refer to the
identification of visual resources (natural and man- made) and the
quality of what can be seen, as well as to the overall judgment (visual
perception) of the visual environment.
Agricultural Resources Ans✓✓✓ Agriculture is the State's leading
industry and is important to the State's economy.
The continued productivity of agricultural lands in California is
important in maintaining a healthy agricultural economy.
The conversion of agricultural lands to nonagricultural use threatens the
long-term health of the State's agricultural industry.
Alternatives as a planning tool Ans✓✓✓ -mitigated project alternative :
developed during the EIR analysis
,- alternatives show the tradeoffs: allows for public discussion and lead to
better ideas
- best case scenario: a better project, with public buy-in
Alternatives Ans✓✓✓ -meets most of the objectives
substantially lessens one or more significant impacts
- are potentially feasible
- must include no project alternatives
Alternatives: focus on impacts Ans✓✓✓ Critical impacts
-class 1
-then class 2
go through screening criteria in order to have a scope of alternatives
CA Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program Ans✓✓✓ - existing
conditions
- classifies farmland
CA State lands commission Ans✓✓✓ responsible for managing 4
million acts of public trust lands
, California Farmland Conservancy Program Act Ans✓✓✓ Encourage
the long-term, private stewardship of agricultural lands through the
voluntary use
of agricultural conservation easements.
Provides grant funding for easement and planning projects that support
agricultural land conservation statewide.
As of January 2015, CFCP funded more than 175 conservation
easements,
permanently conserving some of the state's best farmland in agricultural
regions throughout the state.
California Land Conservation Act of 1965 (Williamson Act) Ans✓✓✓
Enables local governments to enter into contracts with private
landowners for the purpose
of restricting specific parcels of land to agricultural or related open space
use.
In return, landowners receive property tax assessments which are much
lower than normal because they are based upon farming and open space
uses as opposed to full market value.
Categorical Exemptions Ans✓✓✓ minor alterations of land, in-fil
projects, enforcement actions by regulatory agencies
citizens of goleta valley v. Board of supervisors Ans✓✓✓ alternatives
"feasible" Ans✓✓✓ capable of being accomplished in a successful
manner within a reasonable period of time, taking into account
economic, environmental, legal, social, and technological factors."
**money
Adaptive Management Ans✓✓✓ - to adapt over time to achieve the
objectives
- four step process
- spectrum of performance standards
Aesthetic resources Ans✓✓✓ Aesthetics generally refer to the
identification of visual resources (natural and man- made) and the
quality of what can be seen, as well as to the overall judgment (visual
perception) of the visual environment.
Agricultural Resources Ans✓✓✓ Agriculture is the State's leading
industry and is important to the State's economy.
The continued productivity of agricultural lands in California is
important in maintaining a healthy agricultural economy.
The conversion of agricultural lands to nonagricultural use threatens the
long-term health of the State's agricultural industry.
Alternatives as a planning tool Ans✓✓✓ -mitigated project alternative :
developed during the EIR analysis
,- alternatives show the tradeoffs: allows for public discussion and lead to
better ideas
- best case scenario: a better project, with public buy-in
Alternatives Ans✓✓✓ -meets most of the objectives
substantially lessens one or more significant impacts
- are potentially feasible
- must include no project alternatives
Alternatives: focus on impacts Ans✓✓✓ Critical impacts
-class 1
-then class 2
go through screening criteria in order to have a scope of alternatives
CA Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program Ans✓✓✓ - existing
conditions
- classifies farmland
CA State lands commission Ans✓✓✓ responsible for managing 4
million acts of public trust lands
, California Farmland Conservancy Program Act Ans✓✓✓ Encourage
the long-term, private stewardship of agricultural lands through the
voluntary use
of agricultural conservation easements.
Provides grant funding for easement and planning projects that support
agricultural land conservation statewide.
As of January 2015, CFCP funded more than 175 conservation
easements,
permanently conserving some of the state's best farmland in agricultural
regions throughout the state.
California Land Conservation Act of 1965 (Williamson Act) Ans✓✓✓
Enables local governments to enter into contracts with private
landowners for the purpose
of restricting specific parcels of land to agricultural or related open space
use.
In return, landowners receive property tax assessments which are much
lower than normal because they are based upon farming and open space
uses as opposed to full market value.
Categorical Exemptions Ans✓✓✓ minor alterations of land, in-fil
projects, enforcement actions by regulatory agencies
citizens of goleta valley v. Board of supervisors Ans✓✓✓ alternatives
