PERMFILE103030

• Permit No: C1980001
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Section_Exhibit Name: 2.9 LAND USE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

• more than one-third intermixture of another use or uses occurs in a specific area,
it is classified as Mixed Urbon or Built-up Land. W here the intermixed loud use or
uses total less than one-third of the specific area, the category appropriate to the
dominant land use is applied.
This category typically includes developments along transportation routes and in
cities, towns, and built-up areas where separate land uses cannot be mapped
individually. Residential, Commercial, Industrial, and occasionally other land uses
may be included. A mixture of industrial and commerical uses in Industrial and
Commercial Complexes as defined in category 15 are not included in this category.
Farmsteads intermixed with strip or cluster settlements will be included within the
built-up land, but other agricultural land uses should be excluded.
2. AGRICULTURAL LAND
Agricultural Land may be defined broadly as land used primarily for production
of food and fiber. On high-altitude imagery, the chief indications of agricultural
activity will be distinctive geometric field and road patterns on the landscape and
the traces produced by livestock or mechanized equipment. However, pasture and
• other lands where such equipment is used infrequently may not show as well-defined
shapes as other areas. These distinctive geometric patterns are also characteristic
of Urban or Built-up Lands because of street layout and development by blocks.
Distinguishing between Urban or Built-up Lands ordinarily should be possible on the
basis of urban-activity indicators and the associated concentration of population.
The number of building complexes is smaller and the density of the road and highway
network is much lower in Agricultural Land than in Urban and Built-up Land. Some
urban land uses, such as parks and large cemeteries, however, may be mistaken for
Agricultural Land, especially when they occur on the periphery of the urban areas.
The interface of Agricultural Land with other categories of land use may
sometimes be a transition zone in which there is an intermixture of land uses at first
and second levels of categorization. Where farming activities are limited by
wetness, the exact boundary also may be difficult to locate, and Agricultural Land
may grade into Wetland. W hen the production of agricultural crops is not hindered
by wetland conditions, such cropland should be included in the agricultural category.
This latter stipulation also includes those cases in which agricultural crop production
depends on wetland conditions. such ~s the flooding of rice fields or the development
• of cranberry bogs. When lands produce economic commodities as o function of their
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