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t r FINDING A Issuance Not Detrimental Planning staff prepared an Initial Study for the project and posted a Negative Declaration for review. No significant'impacts were identified. As such, the proposal will not be significantly,detrimental to the public health, safety, or welfare, or be injurious to the property or improvements of adjacent properties. FINDING E. Compatibility of Use: The proposed residential use of the subject property is found to be compatible with nearby quarry operations because the State of California has specifically identified very low density residential use as being compatible with mining operations. CALIFORNIA MINERAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT POLICIES Article 6 of the California Code of Regulations- Section 3675. Definitions The following definitions as used herein shall govern the interpretation of these regulations Compatible Land Use. Land uses inherently compatible with mining and/or that require a minimum public or private investment in structures, land improvements, and which may allow mining because of the relative economic value of the land and its improvements. Examples of such uses may include, but shall not be limited to very low density residential, geographically extensive but low impact industrial, recreational, agricultural, silvicultural, grazing, and open space. The proposed residential use of the subject property is further found to be compatible with nearby uses including mining as further described here. On July 3, 2008,the San Joaquin County Planning Commission approved the Lonestar California/Cemex project QX-01-02 for a quarry on 688 acres of land located approximately 450' east of the subject property and about 600' distant from the proposed residence. This quarry included adjacent residential uses closer to both the excavation and processing plant operations. The PIanning Commission found as follows with regard to compatibility: "The Commission finds that the project in conjunction.with past,present, and future development of adjacent areas would not have a significant or potentially significant effect on land use compatibility, agricultural productivity, or slope stability. After consideration of the impacts listed above (and in Section D.1 of these findings) the County concludes that the cumulative impacts listed in this section are less than significant when combined with other related projects and therefore require no mitigation. " The Initial Study and Negative Declaration prepared by planning staff concluded that there were no potential significant effects. In support of the finding by staff as contained in the Initial Study,the Plannning Commission further finds and supports the conclusions of the Initial Study as follows: 3