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CHAPTER 3 <br /> ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING, IMPACTS <br /> AND MITIGATION MEASURES <br /> LAND USE, PLANNING, AND ZONING <br /> Environmental Setting <br /> Existing Land Uses <br /> The proposed Falcon Energy Biomass Processing and Waste Oil Recov- <br /> ery Facility site encompasses 56.9 acres. About two thirds of the site is <br /> currently used for annual crop production, most recently for sugar beets. <br /> The remaining 17.3 acres have been left fallow for the past year. The <br /> triangular plot of land is flanked on the northeast by the Atchinson <br /> Topeka and Santa Fe (AT & SF) Railroad, the Northern California Women's <br /> Facility and Northern California Youth Center on its southwest corner, <br /> and by agricultural uses to its west and south (see Figure 3.1) . All <br /> contiguous properties are in crop production or farming-related <br /> industries. <br /> While the site is in an agricultural area, nearby institutional and <br /> industrial land uses are expanding. For example, the Northern California <br /> Youth Center (NCYC) , on the project's southwest side, is increasing in <br /> size. This detention center is contiguous with the Northern California <br /> Women's Facility, which together comprise a 950-acre campus bordered by <br /> Arch and Austin Roads. The NCYC consists of a complex of 100 buildings. <br /> New construction will add 600 beds in six living units. No expansion is <br /> anticipated for the women's center, which now includes four dormitories <br /> housing 760 women (Lindemayer 1988) . Nearby light-industrial uses are <br /> also increasing. With Stockton's growth rate forecast at an average <br /> 3-1 <br /> 164-3.R4 4/13/89 <br />