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Responses to <br />Environmental Checklist <br />For CEQA Compliance <br />II. Agricultural Resources <br />Sources: Building Specifics#ions; OCGP Resources Element Figure V1-1 (Prime Farmland <br />in Orange County), OCGP Resources Element Figure V!-2 (Orange County <br />Agricultural Preserves); FMMP. <br />Would the projec#: <br />A. Convert Prime Farmland, Unique Farmland or Farmland of Statewide Importance <br />(Farmland) to non-agricultural use? (The Farmland Mapping and Monitoring <br />Program in the California Resources Agency, Department of Conservation, <br />maintains detailed maps of these and other categories of farmland.) <br />Finding: No Impact. <br />Analysis: The State Department of Conservation's Farmland Mapping and Monitoring <br />Program (FMMP) identifies soils throughout the state and rates those soils <br />according to agricultural productivity potential. The project area is mapped by <br />the FMMP as "Urban and Built-Up Land," which is defined as, "Land occupied by <br />structures with a building density of at least 1 unit to 1.5 acres, or approximately <br />6 structures to a 10-acre parcel." As such, the project area does not contain any <br />lands designated by the FMMP as Prime Farmland, Unique Farmland, or <br />Farmland of Statewide Importance, and implementation of the proposed project <br />would not result in any impac#s to important fam~land types. <br />B. Conflict with existing zoning for agricWtura! use or a Williamson Contract? <br />Findin No Impact. <br />Analysis: As identified by the Orange County General Plan, Figure IV-2, Orange County <br />Agricultural Preserves, the project area does not contain any agricultural <br />preserves or Williamson Act Contracts. In addition, zoning in the project area <br />comprises a mixture of residential, public, and commercial land uses, and no <br />lands within the project vicinity are zoned for agricultural use. Therefore, <br />implementation of the proposed project would not conflict with existing zoning. for <br />agricultural use or a Williamson Act Contract. <br />C. Involve other changes in the existing environment which, due to their location or <br />nature, could individually or cumulatively result in loss of Farmland, to non- <br />agricultural use? <br />Finding: No Impact. <br />Analvsis: The project area is primarily urban in character, and there are no active <br />agricultural uses that would be affected by the project. As such, implementation <br />of the proposed project would not result in other changes in the existing <br />environment which could result in the loss of Farmland to anon-agricultural use. <br />Page 32 of 64 <br />75E-36 <br />