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San Joaquin County Community Environmental Setting,Impacts,and Mitigation Measures <br /> Development Department Agricultural Resources,Land Use,and Planning <br /> 3.13 Agricultural Resources, Land Use, and <br /> Planning <br /> Introduction <br /> This section describes existing land uses and agricultural resources in the project <br /> area,presents related state and local policies and regulations, and identifies land <br /> use and agricultural impacts associated with implementation of the proposed <br /> Project. Potential impacts of project alternatives are described and analyzed in <br /> Chapter 4, "Alternatives Analysis." <br /> The key sources of data and information used in the preparation of this section <br /> are listed below: <br /> ■ San Joaquin County General Plan 2010(San Joaquin County 1992); <br /> ■ San Joaquin County Development Title 9; <br /> ■ DeSilva Gates Quarry Excavation Application and Reclamation Plan, San <br /> r <br /> Joaquin County, CA. App. No. PA-03-550(RDT 2004); <br /> ■ California Department of Conservation,Farmland Mapping and Monitoring <br /> Program(FMMP)GIS data; <br /> ` ■ Williamson Act Contracts Map,California Department of Conservation <br /> (DOC 2003); and <br /> ■ Williamson Act Implementing Guidelines—Chapter 9,Division 18 of the <br /> San Joaquin Development Title(DOC 2003). <br /> Environmental Setting <br /> Regional Setting <br /> San Joaquin County encompasses a 912,329-acre,or 1,426-square-mile,area <br /> (San Joaquin County,Land Use Element, 1992). In 2002,approximately 85%of the <br /> land(or 775,114 acres)was devoted to agricultural use(DOC 2004a). About 4,000 <br /> farms are located in the County,with an average size of 209 acres. In California,San <br /> Joaquin County is the top producer of cucumbers,cherries,asparagus,grain com, <br /> apples,and English walnuts and is one of the top five producers of tomatoes, <br /> potatoes,dry beans, sweet com,safflower,watermelons,processing tomatoes, <br /> vegetable and vine crop seeds,onions,and apricots(CASS 2004). <br /> Data from the California Department of Conservation(DOC) indicate that within <br /> the County,Prime Farmland encompassed approximately 54%of total County <br /> ` acreage of agricultural land,while the remaining agricultural land is composed of <br /> DeSilva Gates Quarry Project <br /> Draft Environmental Impact Report 3.B-1 <br /> AS 05705.05 <br />