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El Reno City Zoning Code

ARTICLE VI

Agricultural Districts 1

§ 361-38 General description.

The regulations for the agricultural zoning districts are designed to protect undeveloped areas from intensive uses until a use pattern is approved.
A. 
A-1 Rural Agricultural District. The A-1 District is intended to provide an area primarily for agricultural uses or extraction of the various products such as oil, minerals, rock and gravel from the earth and/or to prevent such land from being prematurely developed for urban purposes. The rural nature and low density of population in this district require only that buildings and facilities related to the uses of this district have a reasonable setback from streets and highways. It is the purpose of this district to protect such agricultural or extractive uses from unplanned urbanization so long as the land is not programmed for essential municipal services.
B. 
A-2 Suburban Agricultural District. The A-2 District is intended to provide for very low density urbanization where partial urban services are provided by the municipality and health and safety standards may be otherwise ensured by the individual on large lots. It is anticipated that the tracts in this district will be in close proximity to residential and commercial uses and be adequately served by police and fire protection, solid waste collection, public water and sanitary waste disposal meeting Oklahoma State Health Department and local requirements. It is not intended that this district provide a location for a lower standard of residential or other development than is authorized in other districts.

§ 361-39 Uses permitted.

The permitted uses in the agricultural districts are set forth in the table below. Where the letter "X" appears on the line of a permitted use and in the column of a district, the listed use is permitted in that district, subject to the general provisions of this chapter as set forth in the preceding sections. Where the letter "P" appears instead of the letter "X," this use is permitted subject to acquiring a conditional use permit as set forth in Article XXII.
Table of Permitted Uses in Agricultural Districts
Zoning District
Permitted Uses
A-1
A-2
Aircraft transportation (special permit requirement shall apply only to establishing and enlarging of airports, flying fields and heliports and to establishing, relocating and lengthening of runways)
P
P
Airway beacon or marker
P
P
Animal hospital (with or without outside runs)
X
P
Apiary
X
X
Arboretum or botanical garden
X
X
Boarding or training animals
X
P
Carnival, circus, tent revival or similar temporary open-air enterprise[1]
P
P
Child-care center
[Added 11-4-2003 by Ord. No. 2968]
P
P
Child-care home, family
[Added 11-4-2003 by Ord. No. 2968]
X
X
Child-care home, large family
[Added 11-4-2003 by Ord. No. 2968]
P
P
Church, synagogue or temple, including Sunday School facilities
X
X
Civil defense and related activities facility
P
P
College, junior college, professional school, or university, public or equivalent private; stadium or field house; other facilities
X
X
Community center, public
P
X
Construction facilities, accessory
P
P
Convalescent, maternity or nursing home
P
P
Dairy farm; egg farm
X
P
Earth moving, excavation or depositing construction materials, clay, earth, gravel, minerals, rock, sand or stone on the ground
P
P
Electric regulating substation
P
P
Farm for raising dogs, cattle, goats, horses, sheep, rabbits, or poultry
X
P
Field crop farm
X
X
Fire protection and related activities facility
P
P
Fishery
X
P
Flood control works
P
P
Fruit, tree nut, or vegetable farm
X
X
Gas pipeline right-of-way
X
P
Gas pressure control station
P
P
Golf course, public or private
P
P
Growing and harvesting of trees
X
X
Horticultural specialty farm
X
X
Hospital, general
P
P
Hospital restricted to mental, narcotics or alcoholic patients; sanatorium
P
P
Library, private, nonprofit and public other than branch
P
P
Livestock [3 head per acre (excluding swine)]
X
X
Marijuana commercial grower
[Added 9-27-2018 by Ord. No. 9161; amended 10-8-2019 by Ord. No. 9209; repealed 1-14-2025 by Ord. No. 9364]
Mental institution
P
P
Mining, quarrying and earth extractions[2]
P
P
Monastery, convent or novitiate
P
P
Motion-picture theater, drive-in
P
P
Museum or art gallery, public
P
P
Newspaper distribution station
P
P
Nursery school or day nursery
X
P
Nursery (trees and shrubs)
X
X
Oil and gas well drilling
X
X
Parish house, parsonage or rectory
X
X
Park, playground or tot lot, public
X
X
Petroleum pipeline or pressure control station
X
P
Pipeline right-of-way or pressure control station, NEC
P
P
Police protection and related activities facility
P
P
Postal services facility
P
P
Public stable
X
P
Radio transmitting station or tower, other than amateur
P
P
Railroad right-of-way (excluding switching and marshalling yards)
P
P
Recreational vehicle park
[Added 9-1-2009 by Ord. No. 7020]
P
Religious retreat facility
P
P
Retail sale of farm products sold on premises
X
P
School, elementary: public or equivalent private
X
X
School, secondary: public or equivalent private
X
X
Sewage pressure control station
P
P
Sewage treatment plant or sludge drying bed
P
P
Single-family detached dwelling
X
X
Skating rink, public
P
P
Solid waste disposal facility
P
P
Swimming pool, public
P
P
Taxicab stand or dispatching station
P
P
Telegraph transmitting or receiving station or right-of-way
P
P
Telephone exchange station, relay tower or right-of-way
P
P
Television transmitting station or relay tower
P
P
Tennis courts, public
P
P
Veterinarian treating animals on premises
X
P
Water pipeline right-of-way, treatment plant, storage facility or pressure control station
X
P
Wildlife area, public
X
P
Wind energy facilities with a total output of less than 50,000 watts[3]
X
Wind generators, accessory[4]
X
Winery (no retail sales on premises)
[Added 3-6-2007 by Ord. No. 5007]
X
P
Winery (sales on premises)
[Added 3-6-2007 by Ord. No. 5007]
P
P
Zoological garden, public
P
P
[1]
Editor's Note: The former entry for child-care institution: other than day nursery, which immediately followed this entry, was repealed 11-4-2003 by Ord. No. 2968.
[2]
Editor's Note: The former entry for mobile home, which immediately followed this entry, was repealed 5-13-2025 by Ord. No. 9374.
[3]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[4]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).

§ 361-40 Area and height regulations for A-1 Rural Agricultural District.

A. 
A table of area and height regulations is as follows:
Minimum Lot Area
(acres)
Minimum Lot Frontage
(feet)
Maximum Coverage
Maximum Height
(feet)
Minimum Front Yard Setback
(feet)
Minimum Side Yard Setback
(feet)
Minimum Rear Yard Setback
(feet)
5
330
10%
35
50
30
50
B. 
All lots and improvements within the A-1 District shall meet the following requirements:
(1) 
All lots shall have not less than five acres of land, including street dedications, and not more than one principal building shall be placed on any one lot.
(2) 
Each lot shall have a frontage of not less than 330 feet; provided, however, that right-of-way dedications may be included in calculating lot frontage.
(3) 
Not more than 10% of the lot area shall be covered with improvements. Paved areas are not considered improvements within the meaning of this provision.
(4) 
No improvement or structure shall exceed 35 feet in height above the mean elevation of the lot except upon the approval of the Board of Adjustment.
(5) 
All structures shall have not less than a fifty-foot front yard setback.
(6) 
All principal structures shall have not less than a thirty-foot side yard setback. Accessory buildings may have side yards of not less than 10 feet.
(7) 
All structures shall have not less than a fifty-foot rear yard setback.

§ 361-41 Area and height regulations for A-2 Suburban Agricultural District.

A. 
A table of area and height regulations is as follows:
Minimum Lot Area
(acres)
Minimum Lot Frontage
(feet)
Maximum Coverage
Maximum Height
(feet)
Minimum Front Yard Setback
(feet)
Minimum Side Yard Setback
(feet)
Minimum Rear Yard Setback
(feet)
2 1/2, or as required
150
15%
35
50
10
50
B. 
All lots and improvements within the A-2 District shall meet the following requirements:
(1) 
All lots shall have an area of not less than that required for septic tank purposes as may be determined by the Oklahoma State Department of Health and the City of El Reno regulations where public sanitary sewer services are not available, but in no case shall the lot area be less than 2 1/2 acres of land, including street dedications, and not more than one principal building shall be placed on any one lot.
(2) 
Each lot shall have a frontage of not less than 150 feet.
(3) 
Not more than 15% of the lot area shall be covered with improvements. Paved areas are not considered improvements within the meaning of this provision.
(4) 
No improvement or structure shall exceed 35 feet in height above the mean elevation of the lot except upon the approval of the Board of Adjustment.
(5) 
All structures shall have not less than a fifty-foot front yard setback.
(6) 
All principal structures shall have not less than a ten-foot side yard setback. Accessory buildings may have side yards of not less than 10 feet.
(7) 
All structures shall have not less than a fifty-foot rear yard setback.