§ 17.02.410. Prime agricultural land.

A.

"Prime agricultural land" means any of the following:

1.

All land which qualifies for rating as Class I or Class II in the Soil Conservation Service land use capability classifications;

2.

Land which qualifies for Rating 80 through 100 in the Storie Index Rating;

3.

Land which supports livestock used for the production of food and fiber and which has an annual carrying capacity equivalent to at least one animal unit per acre as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture;

4.

Land planted with fruit- or nut-bearing trees, vines, bushes or crops which have a nonbearing period of less than five years and which will normally return during the commercial bearing period on an annual basis from the production of unprocessed agricultural plant production not less than two hundred dollars per acre;

5.

Land which has returned from the production of unprocessed agricultural plant products an annual gross value of not less than two hundred dollars per acre for three of the previous five years.

B.

All other land is classified as non-prime agricultural land.

(Ord. 854 § 2 (part), 1987: prior code § 11602.16 (b))