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Both the Conservation and Land Use Elements contain goal statements relative to the protection of economically viable mineral and gravel resources and their subsequent extraction. The Land Use Element includes several policies to implement these goals. Pertinent policies contained in the Land Use Element that are also specific to the proposed TMRF are Policies LU 8.1 and LU 8.4: Policy: LU 8.1: Protect future productivity of mineral resource lands, including significant mineral deposits classified or designated by the Division of Mines and Geology. Actions: LU 8.1.1: Allocate lands for mineral production within the Tracy Planning Area. LU 8.1.2: Adopt reclamation standards consistent with Urban Management Policies. Policy: LU 8.4: Compatible land uses should be alllowed adjacent to mineral resource conservation areas. Action: LU 8.4.1: Locate compatible land uses near extractive activities when they are not impacted by noise, dust, vibration, truck traffic, or visual impact. LU 8.4.2: Define incompatible uses and restrict them from locating adjacent to mineral resource extractive areas. LU 8.4.3: Prepare adequate performance standards for extraction activities and allowable adjacent uses. The project site was mined for gravel between 1971 and 1975 and then reclained and reseeded in 1986. It is unlikely that any further mining activities would occur, as economically viable aggregates have already been extracted from the site. Because the site has already been mined and reclaimed, and is within a larger area shown as "Aggregate" on the City's Urban Management Plan, any subsequent land use at the site would need to be compatible with surrounding extractive uses and would have to be of a type not to restrict or preclude operations normally associated with gravel mining. The proposed project is one not likely to be impacted by the noise, dust, visual impacts, vibration, and truck traffic associated with surrounding aggregate operations, as it is a similar, compatible type of use. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND MITIGATION MEASURES Significance Criteria CEQA Guidelines indicated 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 DER, 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 agricultural issues. Development of the project site would constitute a significant impact if prime soil were removed from agricultural production and if land use conflicts associated with noise, odor, chemical drift, trespassing, and vandalism on adjacent lands would occur. l ER -93-1 -31 - (9-27-93)