The purpose of the agricultural districts is to preserve appropriate areas for permanent and temporary agricultural and open space uses. Uses normally and necessarily related to agriculture are permitted and adverse uses to the continuance of agricultural activity are not allowed. (Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023)

Permitted uses in the agricultural districts include:

   Accessory solar energy systems.

   Accessory uses and buildings.

   Crop production, including pipelines for irrigation and livestock watering.

   Dams and reservoirs.

   Grazing livestock, excluding swine.

   Nursery and/or greenhouses. (Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023)

Conditional uses in the agricultural districts include:

   Agricultural industry or business.

   Below grade pipelines for transporting various energy related products to markets, including accessory uses associated to the pipeline.

   Drilling for any energy related products.

   Electric substation.

   Electric transmission line.

   Forestry.

   Fur farms, livestock feed yards, corrals, silage pits and poultry pens.

   Gravel pits.

   Home occupation, with notification to residents within five hundred feet (500'), by letter, at least seven (7) days prior to planning and zoning meeting.

   Keeping, raising, slaughtering or marketing swine.

   LPG gas, bulk distribution.

   Plants for the production of electricity, powered by hydroelectric, wind and/or photovoltaic (solar).

   Public riding stables.

   Public use.

   Radio and television transmitting stations or towers.

   Retail sales of nurseries and/or greenhouses.

   Screens and/or crushers and similar machinery, for period of approval no longer than six (6) consecutive months. Screens/crushers, etc., shall not be located within one-half (1/2) mile of residence, without signatures. Notification to all property owners within one-half (1/2) mile, by letter, at least seven (7) days prior to planning and zoning meeting, and must secure a road agreement with the County Commission to compensate the County for additional wear on the roads.

   Single-family dwellings; provided, that a second dwelling for the household of an employee or seasonal laborer, or members of the owner's family, may be allowed on the same lot. All structures shall conform to height, setback and health requirements.

   Stands for the sale of produce grown on the premises.

   Swine husbandry units.

   Telecommunication site/facility.

   Temporary worker housing facilities in the A-20 District as provided in section 9-17-15 of this title. (Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023)

No building shall be erected to a height greater than thirty-five feet (35'). (Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023)

 

 

(Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023)

   A.   Private Garage And Accessory Buildings: Private garages and accessory buildings shall be located behind the main building and have a rear yard of five feet (5'), except that where a corner lot rear yard borders the side yard of an adjacent lot, the minimum rear yard for all buildings shall be ten feet (10').

(2004 Code § 10.17.060 amd. Ord. 2024-07, 10-1-2024)

   A.   Agricultural Protections - Setbacks From Territorial City Limits And Historical Residential Districts: All existing Agriculture Protection Zones are exempt from any restrictions imposed within this section, or within the L-CAFO Overlay Map set forth within section 9-10D-1. All dairy cow, veal calf and cattle operations shall be located at least two (2) miles from the territorial limits of any incorporated city or town. All other C-CAFO's shall be located only within the locations set forth within the L-CAFO Overlay Map.

   B.   Conditional Use Permits: Conditional use permits shall only be issued for a gravel pit in an agricultural zone after a bond for reclamation is posted with the County Treasurer as per title 10, chapter 7 of this Code in the amount of ten cents ($0.10) per cubic yard as determined by the dimensions of the proposed gravel pit by the conditional use permit application.

   C.   Electricity Plants: Plants for the production of electricity shall be subject to the following distance restrictions:

      1.   Plants generating a maximum output of two hundred kilowatts (200 kW) or less of electricity shall have no distance restriction.

      2.   Plants generating more than two hundred kilowatts (200 kW) of electricity shall be located a distance of at least one thousand feet (1,000') from an inhabited dwelling. These distance restrictions may be waived if the affected owner of an inhabited dwelling gives consent in writing. Any such consent shall accompany the conditional use permit application.

      3.   Wind generation plants shall be located a distance of at least three thousand nine hundred sixty feet (3,960') from an inhabited dwelling. These distance restrictions may be waived if the affected owner of an inhabited dwelling gives consent in writing. This consent shall accompany the conditional use permit application.

      4.   Hydroelectric generation plants shall be located at least two hundred feet (200') from an inhabited dwelling. The distance restrictions may be waived if the affected owner of an inhabited dwelling gives consent in writing. Any such consent shall accompany the conditional use permit.

(Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023; amd. Ord. 2024-07, 10-1-2024)

The purpose of the agricultural districts is to preserve appropriate areas for permanent and temporary agricultural and open space uses. Uses normally and necessarily related to agriculture are permitted and any adverse uses to the continuance of agricultural activity are not allowed. (Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023)

Permitted uses in the agricultural districts include:

   Accessory solar energy systems.

   Accessory uses and buildings.

   Crop production, including pipelines for irrigation and livestock watering.

   Grazing livestock.

   Household pets.

   Hobby Farming

   Nursery and/or greenhouses.

   Private stables, corrals, chicken coops or pens.

   Tilling soil, raising crops, horticulture and gardening.

   (Accessory uses and buildings customarily incidental to the above). (Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023)

Conditional uses in the agricultural districts include:

   Agricultural industry or business.

   Electric transmission line.

   Home occupation, with notification to residents within five hundred feet (500'), by letter, at least seven (7) days prior to planning and zoning meeting.

   Livestock feed yards, corrals, silage pits and poultry pens.

   Public riding stables.

   Public use.

   Retail sales of nurseries and/or greenhouses.

   Single-family dwellings.

   Stands for the sale of produce grown on the premises. (Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023)

No building shall be erected to a height greater than thirty-five feet (35'). (Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023)

 

 

(Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023)

   A.   Side Yards: On corner lots, the side yard which faces on a street shall be not less than twenty-five feet (25').

   B.   Private Garage and Accessory Buildings: Private garages and accessory buildings located at least ten feet (10') behind the main building may have a rear yard of five foot (5'), except that where a corner lot rear yard borders the side yard of an adjacent lot, the minimum rear yard for all buildings shall be ten feet (10').

(2004 Code § 10.17.060 amd. Ord. 2024-07, 10-1-2024)

Any feed lot, stable, corral, chicken coop or pen in which animals or fowl are maintained shall be at least one hundred feet (100') from any street, dwelling or public use.

(Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023)

   A.   Notification: Notification of a conditional use permit application pursuant to this chapter shall be made by letter, to property owners within one thousand three hundred twenty feet (1,320') (¼ mile) at least seven (7) days prior to planning and zoning meeting.

(Ord. 2023-07, 10-17-2023; amd. Ord. 2024-07, 10-1-2024)