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The Marion County Board of Commissioners also considered whether the application could be approved under the ordinance based on parcels existing prior to May 1, 1977. Because the Board approved the application based on direct access, it is unnecessary to resolve this question. The Board does not make a determination related to whether parcels existed prior to May 1, 1977. 14. MCC 17.137.010 provides the SA purpose statement: The SA (special agriculture) zone is applied in areas characterized by small farm operations or areas with a mixture of good and poor farm soils where the existing land use pattern is a mixture of large and small farm units and some acreage homesites. The farm operations range widely in size and include grazing of livestock, orchards, grains and grasses, Christmas trees and specialty crops. The range in size of management units present no significant conflicts and allow optimum resource production from areas with variable terrain and soils. It is not deemed practical or necessary to the continuation of the commercial agricultural enterprise that contiguous ownerships be consolidated into large parcels suitable for large scale management. Subdivision and planned developments, however, are not consistent with the purpose of this zone and are prohibited. This zone allows the flexibility in management needed to obtain maximum resource production from these lands. It emphasizes farm use but forest use is allowed and protected from conflicts. The SA zone is intended to be applied in areas designated special agriculture in the Marion County Comprehensive Plan. The SA zone retains Class I through IV soils in commercial farm units comparable to those in the vicinity or in small scale or specialty commercial farms where the land is especially suited for such farming. The SA zone is intended to be a farm zone consistent with ORS 215.283. 15. The following code, 17.137.060(A), applies to all conditional uses in the SA zone: 1. The use will not force a significant change in, or significantly increase the cost of, accepted farm or forest practices on surrounding lands devoted to farm or forest use. Land devoted to farm or forest use does not include farm or forest use on lots or parcels upon which a non farm or non - forest dwelling has been approved and established, in exception areas approved under ORS 197.732, or in an acknowledged urban growth boundary. The access to, and location of, the proposed dwelling will cluster it with adjacent rural residential uses. The 130-foot setback from the northern property line will create a buffer between the proposed dwelling and the stand of timber to the north. The access to the subject parcel is achieved through an existing, although undeveloped, easement extending Little Haven Ln S across AR zoned parcels with dwellings. There are no adjacent agricultural uses that could be disturbed by the proposed placement of a non -farm dwelling. A farm/forest declaratory statement will be a condition of approval to ensure the property owner, and future owners, of the subject parcel are aware that the priority of the SA zone is agricultural and/or timber uses, and that owners and inhabitants of the proposed non -farm dwelling shall not infringe, inhibit, or complain about the effects of these uses on the subject dwelling. Most of the lands surrounding the subject property are not devoted to farm or forest use. With respect to the parcels to the south and southwest that by be considered to be devoted to some type of resource use, the topography of the area is such that it is unlikely that there is any accepted