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EWEB's filtration plant is directly across Hayden Bridge Road from these lots on a 55 acre parcel zoned PLO. EWER also owns a 2.b acre parcel zoned PLOD immediately south of lot 500. This lot is within the UGB and separates the subject lots from the intersection of Marcola Road and Hayden Bridge Road. Immediately West along Hayden Bridge Road is a new single family home on a 2 acre parcel, a vacant 2 acre parcel, four 113 acre parcels with single family homes and then several hundred single family homes on city-size lots. Along Marcola Road~are several industrial uses and a residential facility. The McKenzie River separates these lots from the Camp Creek and Mohawk Valleys, both of which have a variety of uses, including agricultural, timber, commercial and residential of varying density ranges. The river marks a clear division, both in elevation and in use, between the urban and rural landscapes. Many years ago the Hayden Bridge Road area was an exclusive farming area, and in several large areas north and west of these lots, agricultural use does predominate. But during the b0's and 10's dozens of subdivisions were approved, cutting this area up into a very definite rural-urban interface. Throughout both the recent and distant past these lots were largely unaffected because they were not used extensively for agriculture and, until recently, there was only a single residence. The commonality of these lots is not just their history or their size or their slope or their use: they are the edge of the city, as sure and distinctive as the river below them. They are isolated~anly by the artifice of the UGB., and not because they are separate from the land surrounding. This action is a logical extension and consistent with the goal of compact urban growth. Other relevant factors ORS 215.203 defines Exclusive Farm Use Zones as lands to be used exclusively for farm use as follows: "...the current employment of land far the primary purpose of _.._.. obtaining a profit in money by raising, harvesting and selling craps or the feeding, breeding, management and sale of, or the produce of, livestock, poultry, fur-bearing animals or honeybees or for dairying and the sale of dairy products or any other agricultural or horticultural use or animal husbandry or any combination thereof." The largest of these lots is 1.45 acres and is occupied by a single family home that is located near the center of the property by the river. The next largest lot x.81 act is occupied by the recently constructed single family home. The three remaining lots are 112 acre or smaller. There is little possibility of any of the farm uses that can be sustained by this soil classification being operated for a profit. Any activity involving animals would create noise, odor or waste that would create a nuisance for nearby residents and would become a possible source of contamination of the McKenzie River. ORS 215.253 prohibits cities and counties from enacting laws or ordinances restricting or regulating any farm use land with exclusive farm use zoning "...from accepted farming practices because of noise, dust, odor or other materials carried in the air or other conditions arising therefrom if such conditions do not extend into an adopted urban growth boundary in such manner as to interfere with the lands within the urban growth boundary." Exhibit A - Findings ~ b