This map shows composite least conflict areas (areas of least conflict agreement for both the agricultural farmland and the environmental conservation stakeholders) within the solar stakeholder boundary. 

The main objective of the Solar and the SJV process was to identify least-conflict areas in the Valley for solar PV development. The solar industry, agricultural farmland conservation, and environmental conservation stakeholder groups generated spatially explicit data to answer this single question. The solar group developed a focal opportunities map, while the agricultural farmland and the environmental conservation stakeholder groups generated least conflict area maps from their group perspectives. Combining the two least conflict results within the solar stakeholder boundary allowed a simple way to see where both agreed, resulting in a composite least conflict areas map. This method allowed for a common language of least conflict identification, using different methods and outputs from multiple stakeholder groups efficiently. 

The full definitions for the composite least-conflict areas are: 

Priority least-conflict area – Least-conflict areas identified by the environmental conservation stakeholder group and the priority leastconflict areas category identified by the agricultural farmland stakeholder group. 

Least-conflict area – Least-conflict areas identified by the environmental conservation stakeholder group and the least-conflict areas category identified by the agricultural farmland stakeholder group. 

Potential least-conflict area – Least-conflict areas identified by the environmental conservation stakeholder group and the potential important agricultural areas category identified by the agricultural farmland stakeholder group.

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