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"My sense is that this piece would be difficult to return to the farm crops customarily grown in the area (wheat; seed crops including grass, oil, vegetable, flower, and other seeds; vegetable crops for both processing and fresh market; berries for fresh and processing; hazelnuts; and nursery stock) without tremendous effort and expense to remove the physical remnants of the poultry operation that occupied the site since at least the early 1970's. Its best use is probably to expand the two operations surrounding it, both of which serve the agricultural community." While the characteristics of the proposed exception site are not enough in themselves to justify an exception, in this case they further demonstrate that farm use is impracticable. The applicant has demonstrated that farm use is impracticable on the proposed exception area. Once an irrevocable committed developed exception has been established, OAR 660-004-0018(2) provides: "For `physically developed' and `irrevocably committed' exceptions to goals, residential plan and zone designations shall authorize a single numeric minimum lot size and all plan and zone designations shall limit uses, density, and public facilities and services to those that satisfy (a) or (b) or (c) and, if applicable, (d): "(a) That are the same as the existing land uses on the exception site; "(b) That meet the following requirements: "(A) The rural uses, density, and public facilities and services will maintain the land as `Rural Land' as defined by the goals, and are consistent with all other applicable goal requirements; "(B) The rural uses, density, and public facilities and services will not commit adjacent or nearby resource land to uses not allowed by the applicable goal as described in OAR 660-004- 0028; and "(C) The rural uses, density, and public facilities and services are compatible with adjacent or nearby resource uses; CP/ZC/PLA 21-00I -RECOMMENDATION- 15 WING PROPERTIES,LLC