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<br /> <br />Red Morton Community Park Sports Lighting Initial Study <br />City of Redwood City 26 June 2015 <br />4.2 AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST RESOURCES <br /> <br />4.2.1 Setting <br /> <br />According to the San Mateo County Farmland Map 2010, Red Morton Community Park and the <br />surrounding area are designated Urban and Built-up Land.5 Urban and Built-up Land is defined as <br />residential land with a density of at least six units per 10 acre parcel, as well as land used for <br />industrial and commercial purposes, golf courses, landfills, airports, sewage treatment and water <br />control structures. <br /> <br />The site is not the subject of a Williamson Act contract and there is no agricultural use on or adjacent <br />to the project site. <br /> <br />According to California Public Resources Code Section 12220(g), Forest Land is land that can <br />support 10-percent native tree cover of any species, including hardwoods, under natural conditions, <br />and that allows for management of one or more forest resources, including timber, aesthetics, fish <br />and wildlife, biodiversity, water quality, recreation, and other public benefits. According to <br />California Public Resources Code 4526, “Timberland” means land, other than land owned by the <br />federal government and land designated by the Board of Forestry as forest land, which is availa ble <br />for, and capable of growing a crop of trees of any commercial species used to produce lumber and <br />other forest products, including Christmas trees. The project site is not forest land or tim berland. <br /> <br />4.2.2 Environmental Checklist and Discussion of Impacts <br /> <br /> <br />Potentially <br />Significant <br />Impact <br />Less Than <br />Significant <br />With <br />Mitigation <br />Incorporated <br />Less Than <br />Significant <br />Impact <br />No Impact Checklist <br />Source(s) <br />Would the project: <br />1. Convert Prime Farmland, Unique Farmland, <br />or Farmland of Statewide Importance <br />(Farmland), as shown on the maps prepared <br />pursuant to the Farmland Mapping and <br />Monitoring Program of the California <br />Resources Agency, to non-agricultural use? <br /> 1,2,4 <br />2. Conflict with existing zoning for agricultural <br />use, or a Williamson Act contract? <br /> <br /> <br />1,2,3 <br />3. Conflict with existing zoning for, or cause <br />rezoning of, forest land (as defined in Public <br />Resources Code section 12220(g)), <br />timberland (as defined by Public Resources <br />Code section 4526), or timberland zoned <br />Timberland Production (as defined by <br />Government Code section 51104(g))? <br /> 1,3 <br />4. Result in a loss of forest land or conversion of <br />forest land to non-forest use? <br /> 1 <br /> <br />5 California Department of Conservation. San Mateo County Important Farmland 2010. October 2011. <br />8.A. - Page 43