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PC : 3-17-88 ER-88-1/GP-87-16/ ZR--87-35/5U-87-23 Lane. A specific condition of approval addressing this issue cannot be made, as the County has not yet developed a specific program that will require the financing of off -site road improve- ments on the development . Land Use: The project site contains approximately 67 acres, comprised of six parcels located centrally within the 141-acre enlarged EIR study area. Four of these parcels contain orchards, and the remaining two are used for irrigated row crops. There are - within the project site . The three single-family homes located P J parcels comprising the expanded study area range in size from 1 . 5 acres to 29 acres . While several of the smaller parcels west of the project .site have been developed with 'single-family residences, a majority of the property comprising the expanded study area is in agriculture . The southern 22 acres of the project site contains remnants of a walnut and cherry orchard. The trees have been neglected and have not yielded a productive crop for several years. Row crops have been planted in the middle 26 acres of the site . The northern 19 acres contain productive cherry and walnut orchards (of approximately 5 and 14 acres , respectively) . Within the expanded study area are cherry and walnut orchards and some row crops. Orchards also occupy some of the smaller rural residential lots along the western boundary of the study area. Surrounding land uses to the north, east , and south are predo- minantly orchards and row crops, with some scattered residen- ces. To the west is the Morada Rural Residential Area and some walnut orchards . Development of the project site would result in the conversion and loss of approximately 62 acres of agricultural land, of which approximately two-thirds is comprised of prime agri- cultural soils. Although the percentage of land lost is con- sidered small , agricultural land is considered to be an important nonrenewable resource . Therefore, the conversion of agricultural land, regardless of how small , is a significant impact which cannot be mitigated to a level of nonsignificance . If approved, there is the potential for the development of 36 additional homesites on the subject site . As the result of the introduction of additional residential uses in an agricultural. --10-