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it would practically affect the Property in a negative manner in the future. Rather, Staff finds that the exceptions process and public comment/participation will act as a sufficient barrier to prohibit further parcelization of the Farm Parcel, unless Marion County includes this property in a future legislative process to add more acreage residential property to Marion County's inventory. 17. Staff initially found that the proposal does not meet the criteria for an irrevocably committed exception in OAR 660-004-0028, and if the Property were to be considered as one parcel, such a finding is accurate. However, the Property does not need to be considered as a whole, because the Homesites and the Farm Parcel are distinguishable, the relationship between the Farm Parcel and the adjacent lands and the Homesites and the adjacent lands is different. When looking at the Farm Parcel, the consolidation of acreage and the buffering used as justification in the original exception narrative remains true. The record supports a determination the Farm Parcel remains large enough that the buffering from the adjacent residential parcels and the associated infrastructure is adequate to allow for continued resource use. There is adequate maneuvering space for large equipment, the slopes within the Farm Parcel are manageable, and the lack of utilities and roadways allow for a variety of resource uses. Although the Farm Parcel should continue in agricultural production, the Homesites are irrevocably committed to residential use because the relationship of these portions of the Property is constrained by both the characteristics of the surrounding area and its relationship to the adjacent lands. 18. A determination that the Property is irrevocably committed requires an analysis of the relationship between the proposed exception area and the lands adjacent to it. OAR 660-004- 0028(2). Applicant provided evidence into the record showing that the surrounding area is heavily developed with acreage residential and commercial properties with minimal resource uses in the vicinity and with only a single adjacent resource use, the farm use to the east. The remainder of the surrounding properties are developed with various rural residential subdivisions or commercial uses, as shown in Applicant's Exhibit 104. The existing rural residential uses applied to the Property, were permitted via the historical exception committing those areas to rural residential use. This has created a unique context in which there is a substantial amount of urban -rural interface, which is not seen in other areas within Marion County. This unique configuration has created a highly incompatible environment for the use of the Homesites for viable (gross profitable) agricultural production, in a manner that was anticipated in the historical exception for these surrounding properties. In the historic exception narrative, the goal was to allow for a modified development, under which the "best grazing land will be retained, and the density will be reduced to conform better with the rural character of the area." Applicant has provided evidence in the record that demonstrates that the Application is consistent with the original intent and purpose of the application of the historic exception. At the time, the Property was owned in conjunction with the agricultural parcel to the east. However, that parcel has subsequently been sold and the lack of contiguous ownership has rendered the original facts that lead to the existing configuration of the applied exception areas moot. As a result, the Homesites are no longer in use as a pathway between the two properties. The Homesites have always been impracticable to farm, it has been the lack of using these areas as access points that has led to the realization that the Homesites are impracticable to farm. 19. DLCD commented in a letter submitted in response to this Application that a lack of commercial viability alone does not render the farm use impracticable to a degree that the Homesites are irrevocably committed to non -resource use. This is true; however, Applicant Exhibit A - Findings Case No. CP/ZC 21-005 13 4864-0600-7078, v. 3