§ 810-2.407. Standards—Prime agricultural land defined.

As used in this title, prime agricultural land means any of the following:

(a)

all land that qualifies for rating as class I or II in the Natural Resource Conservation Service land use capability classifications;

(b)

all land that qualifies for rating eighty through one hundred in the Stone Index Rating;

(c)

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;

(d)

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 production not less than two hundred dollars per acre; and,

(e)

land which has returned from the production of unprocessed agricultural plant products an annual gross of not less than two hundred dollars ($200) per acre for three of the previous five years.

(Gov. Code, § 51201(c); Ords. 2003-12 § 6).