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Exhibit A Project Description The applicant proposes to operate its existing septic pumping and portable restroom service business (Windmill Septic, LLC, dba Windmill Portables) on a 10-acre parcel located at 14250 Jack Tone Road. The business is relocating because their current site on Highway 99 near Austin Road will be targeted for acquisition by the State of California in connection with the widening of Highway 99. The vast majority of the customers of Windmill Portables are existing agricultural businesses and rural residences in San Joaquin County and Stanislaus County. Windmill Portables provides essential services to individual farms, rural residences, farm labor contractors, agricultural processing operations and related agricultural entities. Increasingly, restroom facilities are legally required for a wide variety of agricultural operations. The project would provide a centralized location for the storage and handling of portable restroom facilities and septic pumping equipment. Windmill Portables also provides essential septic pumping services primarily to rural agricultural residences, and also to lift stations in the County. Based on the foregoing, the applicant believes its business is a"Farm Services" use because it provides essential equipment and services that support a wide variety of agricultural operations. Development Title Section 9.115.45 defines farm services as follows: The Farm Services use type refers to administrative services, soil preparation services, and plant crop services, and the storage of farm equipment and material for said services, provided to farming operations on a fee or contract basis. Excluded are those uses classified tinder the Agricultural Processing use type. Typical uses include farm headquarters offices and contract harvesting done primarily by machine. Per Table 9-605.2 in the County Development Title,Farm Services uses are permitted subject to Site Approval. The site will be surrounded by a 6-foot-tall chain link fence,which will be topped by a barbed wire barrier two(2) feet in height. Access to Jack Tone Road will be provided by two 30-foot-wide electric-powered sliding gates that will remain open during business hours.The project will also include a 25-foot tall,two-sided pole sign of 50 square feet per face, and an attached sign 50 square feet in size that shall be illuminated with accent lighting and attached to the main building below the ridge line. Although the nature of the applicant's business dictates that the portable restrooms will frequently depart and return to the site,the applicant estimates that approximately 25-50 toilets will be stored on the site at any given time. The applicant utilizes approximately 75 portable restroom units in total for its business. The applicant's business practices mandate that toilets are completely cleaned,emptied,and are free of chemicals before they are designated for storage. The portable restrooms are emptied with the applicant's septic trucks on the job site before they are returned to the business location for storage. The applicant also will be using six to seven medium-duty trucks to perform its septic pumping services. The high-traffic areas of the site will be paved with asphalt concrete or Portland cement in order to limit dust emissions.This area will include the office,shop,and parking areas of the site.The remaining unpaved areas of the site,which will handle significantly lower volumes of traffic,will be topped with gravel. Waste from onsite portables is removed with the applicant's septic pumping trucks and is delivered to local municipal wastewater treatment facilities including:the City of Ripon,the City of Manteca, and the City of Tracy. This information is also available in the wastewater disposal manifests that the applicant regularly submits to the San Joaquin County Department of Environmental Health. Copies of the previous three months' manifests are attached to this exhibit for the County's reference.