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Draft Environmental Impact Report Page IV.A-7 Forward Inc. Landfill Expansion Zone Classification The San Joaquin County Zoning Map designates both the existing landfill site (including the creek corridors) and the proposed expansion area as AG-40, General Agriculture. 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 acres. The San Joaquin County Development Title specifies that Major Impact Services are allowed in AG zone classification areas, subject to a Use Permit. Major Impact Services, which include sanitary landfills, 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 currently operating under San Joaquin County Land Use Permit No. UP-00-7 granted by the Board of Supervisors in April 2003. General Plan Designations The Southeast County land use designation map of the San Joaquin County General Plan 2010 (adopted July 29, 1992, as revised November 1998) designates corridors along the North and South Branches of the South Fork of Littlejohns Creek within the project site as OS/RC (Open Space, Resource Conservation) (see Figure IV.A-4). The Resource Conservation land use designation is defined as "those areas with significant resources that generally are to remain in open space". (The North Branch of the South Fork of Littlejohns Creek, currently passing along the northern and western edge of the disposal area,was realigned in the early 2000s, and the OS/RC land use designation of the creek corridor was relocated along with the creek at the time of creek realignment. (Funderburg, 2009.) The southeastern portion of the existing Forward Landfill site is designated A/G (General Agriculture). The General Agriculture land use designation is defined as "areas generally committed to agriculture with viable commercial agricultural enterprises that require large land areas to efficiently produce their crops". The northwestern portion of the existing Forward Landfill site (the former Austin Road Sanitary Landfill),with the exception of the (realigned) corridor along the North Branch, is designated as Public, defined as "major institutional facilities, including schools". General Plan Policies The County of San Joaquin County General Plan Infrastructure Services Element contains the following Solid Waste Disposal objective and policies: Objective 1. To ensure the safe and efficient disposal or recycling of wastes generated in San Joaquin County. Poles Waste collection shall be mandatory in all Urban and Rural Communities of San Joaquin County.