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7 As explained above in finding #11, the rural C zone permits uses that do not require public facilities such as sewer or water. Additionally, HWY 99E and the railroad have split off this sliver of EFU land from its larger, farmable parent parcel. It is now an island constrained on all sides and too small for practicable farm use. (i) above explains how roads may be used to demonstrate that a parcel is irrevocably committed to a non-resource use, this applies here. Additionally, the applicant has submitted an analysis showing how tractors and other farm equipment are too large to be used on the subject property. The owner of the property is a local farmer with many acres of farmland in active production. He provides a statement to the record demonstrating how the irregular and small size of the parcel, coupled with the busy highway, make it nearly impossible to get equipment on the site to be used for planting and harvesting. Because the parcel is so small, the equipment would have to be driven to the parcel each time a farming practice needed to be done. There is not room on the parcel to build storage barns as this would take much of the land out of any theoretical crop production. He states that with one access and the size and turning radius of farm equipment, he has never been able to farm that portion of the property. Lastly, the property has no water rights, making small scale agricultural production nearly impossible on the land. To address (ii) above, the applicant does own farmlands adjacent to this parcel that are in active farm production as filbert orchards. The applicant has never been able to farm the subject property due to the factors described above and in the application. The physical factors, roads, shape of parcel and inability to locate farm equipment on it, irrevocably commit this parcel to a non-farm use. The criterion is met. 13. The requirements for zone changes are found in MCC (Marion County Code) 17.123.060 and include: A. The proposed zone is appropriate for the Comprehensive Plan land use designation on the property and is consistent with the goals and policies of the Comprehensive Plan and the description and policies for the applicable land use classification in the Comprehensive Plan; and B. The proposed change is appropriate considering the surrounding land uses and the density and pattern of development in the area; and C. Adequate public facilities, services, and transportation networks are in place, or are planned to be provided concurrently with the development of the property; and D. The other lands in the county already designated for the proposed use are either unavailable or not as well suited for the anticipated uses due to location, size or other factors; and E. If the proposed zone allows uses more intensive than uses in other zones appropriate for the land use designation, the new zone will not allow uses that would significantly adversely affect allowed uses on adjacent properties zoned for less intensive uses.