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} The applicant has been made aware of this requirement. After the applicant was notified of this requirement, the applicant stated that he would relocate the structures out of the 65dB contour in order to avoid the acoustical.study requirement. i The Development Title also requires that outdoor activity areas be located out of the 65 dB contour also. However, the applicant has not stated,or shown on the,site plan any proposed outdoor activity areas. lf.the applicant chooses to locate the structures out of the 65 dB contour, a revised site plan will be required showing the new locations of the structures. If not, the acoustical study will be required. Conversion of A ricultural Land . This project will result in the loss of 4.5-acres of agricultural land. The Community Development Department has determined that the loss of the agricultural land before and after mitigation is significant. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) y guidelines provide five categories of mitigation measures to avoid, minimize, rectify, reduce or eliminate, or compensate for the significant loss of agricultural land (Section 15370)..There are several ways.a "project" proponent can minimize, reduce or compensate for the significant loss of agricultural land, whether significant by the loss proposed by the "project" or cumulatively significant, including but not limited to: 1. By providing water supply for agriculture... _ 2. By assisting agriculturists in developing restoration and conservation projects. 3. By purchasing and combining smaller parcels to make agriculture more viable. 4. By conducting or funding flood plain restoration projects that benefit agriculture. 5. By developing or funding buffer zones between urban development and agricultural land. p,3 f i 6. By improving levees to protect agricultural land from flooding. 7. By conducting or funding erosion control projects that benefit agriculture. 8. By clustering development of the "Project" to support efficient use of agricultural - lands. -' 9. By conducting or providing funding for techniques that increase production by identifying new processes, new techniques, or new crop potential on heretofore limited agricultural production lands, i.e., converting grazing land to vineyards. 10. By conducting or funding programs that identify best agriculture management practices to increase efficiencies, such as land adjacent to wetlands, and potentially bring more agricultural land into production. 11. By conducting or funding Urban Limit Line studies that provide for improvement of geometric shape and compactness of urban development that reduce pressure to prematurely convert agricultural lands. As previously stated one method to mitigate for the loss of agricultural land is to obtain agricultural conservation easements that assure the availability of agricultural land for the long term., One technique to obtain conservation easements, to mitigate for the loss of agricultural land, is to establish a mitigation fee. Absent such a fee, the project ' proponent has the alternative to purchase the easement directly from a property owner. Another alternative is to work with the American Farmland Trust to establish a mitigation fee. In this case, the fee will be placed.in an interest-bearing account for a three-year period of time to allow San Joaquin County to develop a mitigation program for the loss of agricultural land or to select an appropriate mitigation site within San Joaquin County. If San Joaquin County establishes a farmland trust during the three years, the American Farmland Trust will distribute the funds to San Joaquin County. If San Joaquin County has not approved a program for the loss of agricultural land, then the American r t 4