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relies on commercial viability as one factor among several that support the determination that the Homeiites are irrevocably committed. Namely, (1) lack of commercial viability; (2) limited access and maneuvering space due to the adjacent residential parcels; (3) sharp slopes along the ridgeline adjacent to the property lines; (4) constraints stemming from the roadways and the utilities along the roadway that limit the ability to farm this property; and (5) the geological and topographical makeup of these particular parcels makes resource use, from crop farming to forest use, unproductive. Applicant has established when viewed through the totality of the circumstances, the relationship between the adjacent lands and the pattern of development applied via the previous goal exception have rendered the Homeistes irrevocably committed. 20. DLCD also commented that this Application was similar to the Pfennig Trust case (CP/ZC/P 19-005) in which LUBA found that Marion County improperly determined that the Pfennig property was irrevocably committed. A close examination of the facts of the Pfennig application against the facts of the Enchanted Ridge (ERPOA) Application is necessary to show that the ERPOA application is noticeably different than Pfennig. EXAMINATION OF FACTS COMPARISON Pfennig Trust Case No. CP/ZC/P 19-005 - Pfennig involved a 20.46 ac. SA zoned parcel that the applicant wanted to get an exception to the entire property in order to create two, 2 ac. parcels, and a 16.46 ac. parcel with subsequent partitions to the 16.46 ac. parcel. Pfennig wanted to convert farmland out of the heart of the property for residential use. - The Pfennig property is bordered on the north, northwest, and east by AR zoned properties, but is bordered by SA zoned properties to the south, and west. In Pfennig, there are farm uses occurring west of the Pfennig property on the SA zoned land. - Access to the Pfennig property was by a single access road (Whispering Way SE) off of Macleay Road SE that ends at the northern tip of the Pfennig property. There are no other access roads that split up the Pfennig property. - Only 4 AR zoned parcels abutted Whispering Way SE. Exhibit A - Findings Case No. CP/ZC 21-005 ERPOA Case No. 21-005 - ERPOA involves a 85.60 ac. EFU zoned parcel that the applicant is wanting an exception to separate off three parcels, not the whole Property. Further, in ERPOA, the Applicant is not attempting to take any portion of the heart of the farm property, but only the isolated areas that are truly irrevocably committed. - The ERPOA Property is bordered by SA to the east, but surrounded, north, south, east and west by AR and Commercially zoned property. In ERPOA, there are no farm uses adjacent to the property in the neighborhood. - Access to the ERPOA Property is by a single access road (Enchanted View Lane SE) off of Enchanted Way SE, but then splits into three different access roads (Enchanted View Lane, Enchanted Ridge Court, and Valley Way SE). These access roads are paved and cut through the ERPOA Property serving the existing adjoining residential development. - 30 AR zoned parcels abut the ERPOA Property (off of Enchanted View Lane, 14 4864-0600-7078, v. 3