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4.1 LAND USE AND PLANNING POLICY The act also allows an owner to file a Notice of Non-Renewal. This notice alerts the County that the owner will take the lands out of contract ten years from the date of notice. When land comes out of contract, property taxes are reassessed at a new rate. Under this process the property owner does not pay any penalties. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND MITIGATION MEASURES Significance Criteria CEQA guidelines indicate that a project will normally have significant adverse impacts if it conflicts with the adopted land use policies of the community where it is located. For the purpose of this DEIR, the following are considered potentially significant planning and zoning impacts: a proposed use that conflicts with the General Plan land use designation or the zoning district where the project is located, and/or the project is not consistent with the land use policies of the County General Plan. Significant adverse impacts could also arise from agriculture issues. Development of the project site would constitute a significant impact if: prime soil would be removed from agricultural production,and land use conflicts associated with noise,odor,chemical drift,trespassing and vandalism on adjacent lands would occur. Unless otherwise noted, all identified impacts are considered significant adverse impacts. The corresponding mitigation measures, unless otherwise noted, would be sufficient to reduce impacts to a less than significant level. For impacts that are considered less than significant,CEQA does not require mitigation measures. Planned Development (PD) Requirements The intent of the PD zone is to "allow diversification of development and thereby achieve development superior to what could be achieved through application of conventional development standards" (Zoning, Section 9-2320). The PD section lists eight specific intentions that could be achieved through PD development. The intentions that relate most specifically to the proposed project include subsections (b) and (f): "b) To simplify the processing of development proposals by providing a method of concurrent review of land use, subdivision, public improvements, and siting considerations." "f) to provide a method of developing sites with unique, natural or historical features and also preserve and enhance those features." 4.1-11