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035 <br />ENERGY USE. Located at least five miles from another Rural <br />Industrial Activity Node. <br />COLLIES. No other Rural Industrial Activity Nodes exist in <br />the Rural Buffer. <br />EXISTING LAND USE. Located in an area surrounded by rural, very <br />low-- density residential uses or agricultural uses.. <br />COMPLIES. This property is consistent with the requirements <br />for existing land use for both the Rural Industrial Activity <br />Node and Extractive Uses requests. <br />Currently, the predominant land use in this area is rural <br />residential with some agricultural uses. This is typical of <br />land uses within the Rural Buffer area (located in areas <br />outside of.Transition and Urban areas where prevailing uses <br />are rural residential and agricultural in nature). <br />AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. Located at sites within rural areas that <br />would not unreasonably intrude upon the existing landscape <br />character. <br />COLLIES. This site is currently developed as a quarry <br />operation and a raw water storage facility. The rural <br />residential, agricultural and forestry uses which exist in the <br />vicinity have continued and expanded while this quarry has <br />been in operation. The applicant proposes to expand this <br />quarry operation within the present site. <br />POPULATION DENSITY. Located in areas with a very low- density <br />rural population. <br />COMPLIES. This area is sparsely developed with single family <br />homes and manufactured housing. <br />HISTORIC AND COLTURAL. Located away from areas where development <br />would have a detrimental impact on state or federally acknowledged <br />historic - cultural sites or County identified Public Interest Areas. <br />COMPLIES. There are no state or federally acknowledged <br />historic /cultural sites or County - identified Public Interest <br />Areas in the vicinity of the proposed amendment. There are <br />however, 2 churches, one cemetery, and one community site in <br />the area as identified in the 1986 "Inventory of Sites of <br />Cultural, Historical, Recreational, Biological, and Geological <br />Significance in the Unincorporated Portions of Orange County". <br />Hickory Grove Baptist Church and Bethel Baptist Church are <br />11 <br />