Cancelling a CA Land Conservation Contract | To Develop the Land

[Steven E.]

1. We have land with a nursery on it, which we want to subdivide (then develop).  We recently ran a preliminary title report.

2. Evidently there is a Land Conservation Contract on the land dating back to 1970.  In an initial consult with a RE attorney, we were told we need to draft a letter to have it cancelled.  Of course, our attorney offered to do it at his rate.

3. Is this something which a non-legal person (me) could do?  How would I learn more about how to have it cancelled ourselves?

4. (For detail, this Land Conservation Contract was executed pursuant to Section 51200 et seq. California Government Code.)