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SECTION IV LAND USE AND PLANNING POLICY A. LAND USE ti 1 . Environ :.e a Setting The main industry in San Joaquin County is agriculture. It produces high value specialty crops and in 1986 generated 0. 66 s billion dollars in agriculture revenues. 1 Much of the farming is conducted on small family farms ranging in size from 20 to 80 ! acres. The County ' s General Plan has placed great importance on ' protecting agricultural land. The Land Use/Circulation Element assumes that agriculture and related dependent industries will continue to play a major role in the County ' s economy. A goal of the Land Use/Circulation Element reinforces the importance of ' agriculture which is: "to maintain and enhance the continued prosperity and growth of the agricultural and agriculturally oriented segment of the County ' s economy . The project site is located in unincorporated San Joaquin County approximately 2. 5 miles northeast of Stockton. The project site is bounded by the following land uses ( refer to Figure 4 ):. North/northwest - Rural Residential and Agricultural land �. (walnut and cherry orchards) 1 East - Agricultural land (walnut orchards) South - Agricultural land (row crops and walnut orchards) West - California Central Traction Railroad line, Rural Residential , agricultural land (walnut orchards) a . Agricultural Information Two-thirds of the project site is planted in walnut or cherry orchards. However, only the remnants of a cherry and walnut orchard occupy the southerly +22 acres. The applicant indicated that these orchards have not been productive for the last ten years. Five of the remaining +19 acres in the northeast portion of the site are planted in cherry orchard and the rest of the r acreage is planted in walnut orchard . Row crops occupy +/- 26 acres in the center of the site. During , summer, 1987, sugar beets were growing in this area . Approximately three years ago the tenant farmer installed a pump to irrigate the +26-acres. Prior to that time, 2 this pgreagewas e ca ood irrigated for row _cps 2 The productive cherry orchards at the north end of the property are spray irrigated . 8 Within the expanded study area, in particular the properties bounded by Foppiano Lane and Canepa` Road, landowners grow cherries ' andwalnuts and some row crops. Orchards also occupy some of the smaller rural residential lots along the western boundary of the study area . The owner of the adjacent southeastern parcel 15