County of Orange Subregional Planning Agreement Sample Clauses

County of Orange Subregional Planning Agreement. The County of Orange was one of the early participants in the southern California NCCP process. Two NCCP subregions were proposed by the County: the Central and Coastal Subregion and the Southern Subregion. Both of the County’s subregional planning units have been reviewed and approved by the CDFG and the USFWS as subregions that were sufficiently large and diverse to address cumulative impacts on habitat resources and planning for species protection at a scale contributing to the conservation of targeted species. Together, the two NCCP subregions contain about two-thirds of the total County land area and more than 90 percent of the existing coastal sage scrub habitat. The County formally enrolled its unincorporated area in the NCCP program on a jurisdictional basis early in 1992 and it took the lead in preparing the first Memorandum of Agreement (Planning Agreement) covering a NCCP subregional planning area. The subregional Planning Agreement was signed on May 7, 1993, by the County, the USFWS, CDFG, and participating landowners in the Southern Subregion (Appendix A). It also was signed by two of the cities within the Southern Subregion: the City of Mission Viejo and the City of San Clemente. The City of San Xxxx Capistrano adopted a resolution approving participation in the NCCP/HCP process, but did not sign the Planning Agreement. The Planning Agreement established the County as the lead agency for purposes of preparing the NCCP and the associated EIR.