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Hope Township City Zoning Code

§ 20-29.6

Notice of Farm Use.

[Ord. #98-13, § I]
For the purpose of giving due notice of nearby farming uses to proposed new residential areas adjacent to land then being commercially farmed or suitable, therefore, the Planning Board shall require an applicant for an adjacent major or minor subdivision, as a condition of approval of such application, to include a provision in each and every deed conveying all or any portion of the lands thereby subdivided, as well as on filed final subdivision maps, the following record notice to and waiver by grantees of objection to such present or future proximate farming uses, which such provision shall be made to run with the land:
"The grantee hereby acknowledges notice that there are presently or may in the future be farm uses adjacent or in close proximity to the above-described premises. The grantee further acknowledges that the Township of Hope, in its adopted Right-to-Farm Ordinance, has deemed established as acceptable activities which may result in the emanation of noise, odors, dust and fumes caused by such necessary activities when conducted in accordance with recognized agricultural practice. Such activities include but are not limited to the production and processing of agricultural and horticultural crops and livestock, aerial and ground spraying, the spreading of manure and chemical and organic fertilizers and the wholesale and retail marketing of agricultural and related products. The grantee further acknowledges that such activities may occur on holidays, weekends and at all times of the day, including early morning, evening and nighttime hours. By acceptance of this conveyance, the grantee does hereby waive objection to such activities."