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�L Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.A-6 Forward Inc. Landfill 2014 Expansion Project to prevent harm to individuals. low Police 3. Land uses and structures which contain hazardous materials or wastes which may be a safety hazard for nearby areas shall be located away from existing and planned populated areas. Police 4. The use of hazardous materials and the creation of hazardous wastes shall be minimized. Policy 5. All development shall be consistent with the County's Waste Management Plans. Zoning Classification The San Joaquin County Zoning Map designates the existing landfill site (including the creek corridors) and the proposed 2014 Expansion Project areas as AG-40, General Agriculture,40- acre minimum. Uses permitted in AG zones include agricultural and certain residential, agricultural commercial, agricultural processing, communication, educational, utility, religious, recreation, and Major Impact Services uses. In the AG-40 zone, the minimum size for new parcels is 40.0 acres. The San Joaquin County Development Title specifies that the Major Impact Services use classification is a permitted use in AG-40 zone, subject to an approved Use Permit application. Major Impact Services use types include sanitary landfills, which are defined as ,+ land intensive activities that must be located away from residences or concentrations of people due to the nature of the operation's impacts. The existing Forward Landfill is classified under the Major Impact Services use type and currently permitted under San Joaquin County Land Use Permit No. UP-00-7 granted by the Board of Supervisors in April 2003. Bird Strikes and Gull Survey Evaluations The 2013 EIR discussed information on bird strikes available at that time. The following paragraph updates that discussion with new information available at the time this SEIR was prepared (Davis, 2013, see Appendix C for a copy of this report). The Federal Aviation +r- Administration (FAA)began tracking bird/aircraft collisions at the Stockton Airport(SCK) in 1990. The FAA database documenting bird/aircraft collisions contained records of 45 bird strikes associated with the Stockton Airport, as of December 31,2013. Of the 45 strike reports i, from Stockton Airport, one involved a gull(carcass only) and three others might have involved gulls. Even allowing for significant under-reporting of bird strikes, four strikes at SCK in over 20 years with no damage reported indicates that the uncontrolled Forward Landfill was not posing a significant threat to aircraft using the Stockton Metropolitan Airport. Twenty-three of the reported bird strikes at SCK occurred since the gull control program was instituted at Forward Landfill. These strikes involved Barn Owls (3), a Burrowing Owl, a White-tailed Kite, Red-tailed Hawks (3), a Turkey Vulture, an American Kestrel, Horned Larks (3), Western Meadowlarks(2), a Rock Pigeon, an European Starling,unidentified small birds (4), and two unidentified birds. No gulls were involved and none of the birds struck were attracted to the area by the landfill. L. The project applicant has implemented a program to survey gull populations in the vicinity of the landfill and has implemented a permanent gull control program to prevent the potential for bird strikes and deter gulls from flying, landing or feeding at or near the landfill. Forward Landfill safety procedures include monitoring bird populations at the site. Bird surveys (conducted over a period of at least 1.5 hours on a single day) observed 500 gulls on February 23, 2005, 661 gulls in January 2007, 75 gulls on January 14,2009, and 400 gulls on February 10, .. 2010 (Schneider, 2005;Stagnaro, 2009). The lower number of gulls observed in 2009 was attributed to deterrent measures (whistles and bombs) employed by the landfill. L