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c. Transportation System Development Charges (SDCs) will be assessed at the time of application for building permits. Marion County Building commented: “No Building Inspection concerns. Permit(s) are required to be obtained prior to development of structures and/or utilities installation on the subject property, if proposed.” Marion County Septic commented: “An authorization for a change in use is required. Will require an accurate map showing tank + drainfield location-first distribution box must be opened. Will require a 3rd party existing system evaluation to be done + document presented with authorization application.” Marion County Code Enforcement commented: “The approval of this CU would allow me to close my Code Case. The concern I do have is the additional traffic with them dispatching vehicles.” All other commenting agencies stated no objection to the proposal. 7. MCC 17.136.050 (D)(6) allows a landscape contracting business, as defined in ORS 671.520, or a business providing landscape architecture services, as described in ORS 671.318, if the business is pursued in conjunction with the growing and marketing of nursery stock on the land that constitutes farm use. The applicant is proposing to operate a landscape contracting business, as defined in ORS 671.520, or a business providing landscape architecture services, as described in ORS 671.318, providing services such as mowing and planting of decorative plants. The applicant’s proposed operation meets the definition of a landscape contracting business. 8. In addition to the specific criteria below, the proposal must also satisfy the conditional use criteria which are being applied directly from state law. Those requirements are: 1. Will not force a significant change in accepted farm or forest practices on surrounding lands devoted to farm or forest use; and 2. Will not significantly increase the cost of accepted farm or forest practices on surrounding lands devoted to farm or forest use. 3. For purposes of subsection (a) and (b), a determination of forcing a significant change in accepted farm or forest practices on surrounding lands devoted to farm and forest use or a determination of whether the use will significantly increase the cost of accepted farm or forest practices on surrounding lands devoted to farm or forest use requires: (A) Identification and description of the surrounding lands, the farm and forest operations on those lands, and the accepted farm practices on each farm operation and the accepted forest practices on each forest operation; The applicant provided a comprehensive overview of the different uses on surrounding lands. The applicants state that the property owners to the north are longstanding friends of the applicants, who played a role in assisting them in purchasing the subject property for their landscaping business. The parcel abutting the west and south boundaries of the subject property is a commercial farm operation. The applicants have indicated these neighbors have requested they maintain clean property lines, free of any foliage and debris. To the east, there is a commercial grape vineyard, with neighbors requesting that the existing lawn be kept short and well-maintained to prevent pests from affecting their grapes. The applicant has sufficiently described and identified agricultural uses in the immediate area. (B) An assessment of the individual impacts to each farm and forest practice, and whether the proposed use is likely to have an important influence or effect on any of those practices. This assessment applies practice by practice and farm by farm; and The applicant states that the main impacts of their proposed operation are noise, spraying of pesticides, and dust from the gravel driveway. The applicant addresses each of these issues by proposing methods through which these impacts can be mitigated. Through this, the applicant demonstrates how none of the potential impacts will have an