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Hope Township City Zoning Code

§ 20-29.3

Definitions.

[Ord. #98-13, § I]
ACCEPTABLE AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Shall mean the agricultural management practices recommended or endorsed by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, the Rutgers University Extension Service, the State Agricultural Development Committee, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and relevant Federal or State statutes rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
AGRICULTURE
Shall mean the production principally for the sale to others of plants, animals or their products, including, but not limited to, forage and sod crops, grain and feed crops, dairy animals and dairy product; livestock including dairy and beef cattle, poultry, sheep, swine, horses, ponies, mules and goats; including grapes, nuts and berries; vegetables; nursery, floral, ornamental and greenhouse products and other commodities as described in the Standard Industrial Classification for agriculture, forestry, fishing and trapping. Agriculture shall not include intensive poultry or swine production or commercial feedlot operations.
FARM
Shall mean an area of land made up of single or multiple joining or non-joining parcels which is organized as a management unit actively devoted to agricultural or horticultural use, including, but not limited to, cropland, pasture, idle or fallow land, woodland, wetlands, farmponds, farm roads and under farm buildings and other enclosures related to agricultural pursuits, which occupies a minimum of the lesser of five acres or five times the minimum lot size of the zone in which the property is located, exclusive of the land upon which the farmhouse is located and such additional and as may actually be used in connection with the farmhouse as provided in the Farmland Assessment Act of 1965, R.S. 54:4-23.3, 4-23.4, 4-23.5 and 4-23.11.
NUISANCE
Shall mean any private action which unreasonably interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of another's property, which may be enjoined or abated and for which the injured or affected property owner may recover damages.
PERMANENT FARM STAND
Shall mean an enclosed, fixed accessory building with a maximum height of sixteen (16') feet or one story, which ever is less, and a maximum square footage of 500 square feet. Not less than 75% of the retail area shall be devoted to the sale of farm products grown or made on site. A non-illuminated sign, not to exceed eight square feet, advertising the farm stand shall be permitted.