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ARTICLE 13. REGULATIONS IN AGRICULTURAL EXCLUSIVE (A-E) DISTRICTS

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§9160:    Agricultural Exclusive Or A-E District

§9160 AGRICULTURAL EXCLUSIVE OR A-E DISTRICT

A.    This district is intended to be an exclusive district for agriculture and those uses which are necessary and an integral part of the agricultural operation. This district has been created to protect and preserve the limited amount of agricultural soils from encroachments of nonrelated agricultural uses which, by their nature, would be injurious to the physical and economical well-being of the Agricultural District.

B.    The following specific regulations and general regulations set forth in Article 16 shall apply in all A-E Districts:

C.    Uses Allowed:

1. The raising, harvesting and curing of tree, vine, field forage, fiber and other plant life crops of all kinds, including plant nursery stock.

2. Production of agricultural commodities for commercial purposes.

3. Grazing of livestock on irrigated pasture.

4. Dairies and the production of dairy products from milk produced on the premises.

5. Boarding horses and other farm animals.

6. Sale of food products produced on the premises.

7. Apiaries and honey extraction plants.

8. Holding of nonproducing land for future agricultural use, maintenance of land in its natural state for the purpose of preserving open space for recreation or the creation of plant or animal preserves.

9. One family dwelling, trailers and accessory buildings, and farm buildings of all kinds, including labor camps when located upon farms and occupied or used by the owner, farm tenant or other persons employed thereon or the nonpaying guests thereof.

10. Home occupations, including any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the structure for dwelling purposes and which use does not change the character thereof.

11. Production of fish life or fish products for commercial purposes (hatcheries, ponds, etc.)

D.    Uses Requiring Use Permits: The following compatible uses and those which, in the opinion of the Planning Commission, may be substantially similar in nature thereto shall be permitted, but only upon the securing of a use permit pursuant to this Chapter:

1. Development of natural resources, including barrow pits and quarries with necessary buildings, apparatus or appurtenances thereto, except where used as a part of the bonafide agricultural operation.

2. The processing, packaging, packing, shipping and selling of agricultural products produced upon the premises or where such activity is carried on in conjunction with or as a part of an agricultural use.

3. The maintaining, breeding and raising of poultry and livestock of all kinds, including agricultural specialties, such as furbearing animals.

4. Sale of food products produced off the premises, provided that the sale of such products is incidental and secondary to the sale of agricultural products produced upon the premises.

5. The following uses when carried on as a clearly secondary occupation in conjunction with a bonafide agricultural operation, when no more than ten percent (10%) of the total land is used and where no more than three (3) persons other than the owner are employed in such activities, and which are owned and operated by the owner or occupant of the premises: the manufacturing of agricultural machinery, implements and equipment of all kinds; the manufacture, storage or sale of farm supplies of all kinds, including, but not limited to, fertilizers, agricultural minerals and insecticides; the transportation of agricultural products, supplies or equipment, together with the maintenance, storage, repair and servicing of the necessary trucks and equipment thereof.

6. Recreational use, meaning the use of land by the public, with or without charge, for any of the following recreational uses: walking, hiking, picnicking, camping, swimming, boating, fishing, hunting or other outdoor games for which no structures or buildings not permitted by the use permit are provided.

7. Commercial radio, television or microwave antennas and transmitters.

8. Veterinary services.

9. Buildings, structures and other facilities constructed and utilized only as incidental to a recreational use or to an otherwise permitted agricultural use.

10. Public utility and public services, structures, uses and buildings.

11. Locations of underground utility installations and of above-ground utility installations for local service; including substations, generating plants, gas holders and transmission lines.

E.    Minimum lot area. Forty (40) acres. (Ord. 793, §2, adopted 1982; amd. by Ord. 885, §1, adopted 1989)

F.    Maximum main building coverage. Five percent (5%).

G.    Minimum front yard. Twenty five feet (25’).

H.    Minimum side yard. Twenty five feet (25’).

I.    Minimum rear yard. Twenty five feet (25’).

J.    Minimum vehicle parking. Two (2) parking spaces for each dwelling unit, and spaces for all vehicle parking, loading and unloading.

K.    Maximum building height. Two and one-half (2 1/2) stories, but not to exceed thirty-five feet (35’) for residential buildings, all other buildings fifty feet (50’). (Ord. 793, §2, adopted 1982)