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following analysis goes through all of the applicable approval criteria and provides the required findings. A. Goal 3 Exception The applicant is seeking both a comprehensive plan amendment and a zone change. The zone change is dependent upon obtaining the comprehensive plan amendment. In other words, if the applicant fails to obtain a comprehensive plan amendment then it cannot obtain the proposed zone change. The property is designated Primary Agriculture, which means the property is agricultural land. Therefore, in order to change the plan and zone designation to allow for industrial use the applicant must obtain an exception to Goal 3. Under ORS 197.732(2), there are three types of goal exceptions that may be taken: physically developed, irrevocably committed, and reasons exceptions. The applicant is seeking an irrevocably committed exception. OAR 660-004-0028(1) provides that an irrevocably committed exception may be taken "when the land subject to the exception is irrevocably committed to uses not allowed by the applicable goal because existing adjacent uses and other relevant factors make uses allowed by the applicable goal impracticable[.]" OAR 660-004-0028(2) provides: "Whether land is irrevocably committed depends on the relationship between the exception area and the lands adjacent to it. The findings for a committed exception therefore must address the following: "(a) The characteristics of the exception area; "(b) The characteristics of the adjacent lands; "(c) The relationship between the exception area and the lands adjacent to it; and "(d) The other relevant factors set forth in OAR 660-004-0028(6)." OAR 660-004-0028(2)(a) requires a description of the characteristics of the proposed exception area. The proposed exception area is a 3-acre portion of a parcel of CP/ZC/PLA 21-001 -RECOMMENDATION-5 WING PROPERTIES,LLC