The agricultural district is established as a district in which agriculture and certain related uses are encouraged as the principal uses of land. The specific intent is to facilitate the proper use of lands best suited to agriculture through preventing the admixture of urban and rural uses which creates incompatibility and conflict, places unbalanced tax loads on agricultural lands to help pay for urban services, and contributes to the premature termination of agricultural pursuits. This district is also designed to prevent the health hazards brought about by the illogical placements of inappropriately high residential densities in the otherwise open countryside.

(§3.41 of Ord. dated 10/24/77: (part) of Ord. dated 11/2/65).

Permitted uses in the agricultural district include the following:

A.

Agricultural uses, including but not limited to horticulture, forestry, crop and tree farming, gardening, dairy, stock, and poultry farming, and the operation of any machinery or vehicles and other uses customarily incidental thereto; but excluding slaughter houses, fertilizer works, bone yards, plants for the processing of animal skins or hides, and plants for the reduction of animal matter.

B.

Single-family dwellings including:

1.

Farmsteads;

2.

Single-family dwellings for families of those residing on and owning the farmsteads.

C.

Public or private community facilities such as schools, churches, cemeteries, libraries, parks, recreational facilities, hospitals, institutions, and other similar uses.

D.

Public utility and service uses such as electric substations, telephone transmission structures, radio, television, and microwave relay towers, water reservoirs or pumping stations, government buildings, transportation facilities, and other similar uses.

E.

Signs, as permitted in Chapter 17.68 of this title.

F.

Two mobile homes may be maintained by a farm owner or operator living on the land for persons not engaged in agricultural pursuits as defined by Section 17.20.010, providing:

1.

The mobile home is occupied by a relative standing in the relation of son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, father, mother, brother, sister, grandchild, or grandparent of the owner or tenant or his wife;

2.

The mobile home is located in close proximity to the farmstead occupied by the owner or tenant; and

3.

Adequate provision is made for modern running water and sewage facilities.

G.

One mobile home may be located on a lot while the owner is building a house providing:

1.

The lot size and setback lines meet the requirements of the general provisions of this title;

2.

The permit for such mobile home shall be issued for only one year, and renewable each year for no more than two successive years;

3.

Reasonable and diligent effort is being made to construct a house;

4.

At any time the enforcing officer determines that reasonable and diligent effort is not being made, he shall revoke the permit; and

5.

Adequate provision is made for modern running water and sewage facilities.

(§3.42-1 of Ord. dated 10/24/77: (part) of Ord. dated 11/2/65).

Accessory uses in the agricultural district include the following:

A.

Professional home occupations in a single-family dwelling; provided, that such use is incidental to the main use as a dwelling; and, provided further, that such use is limited to a person actually residing in the dwelling;

B.

Living quarters such as a tenant house, an apartment, or rooms for persons employed on the premises and not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling;

C.

Barns and other bona fide farm buildings;

D.

Private garages and private greenhouses;

E.

Private stables which are incidental to an existing principal use which provides shelter for not more than three horses for the exclusive use of the occupants of the premises, and not less than fifty feet from any property line;

F.

Roadside stands, offering for sale agricultural or other products grown or produced on the premises upon which the stand is located; provided, the stand is located at least twenty-five feet from the front property line, and off-street parking is provided in accordance with Chapter 17.64 of this title.

G.

Off-street parking and loading as regulated in Chapter 17.64 of this title.

(§3.42-2 of Ord. dated 10/24/77: (part) of Ord. dated 11/2/65).

Special uses in the agricultural district include the following:

A.

Mobile Home Parks, subject to regulations of the county mobile home park ordinance and in conformance with the planned development procedure set out in Sections 17.72.020 through 17.72.040.

B.

Dumps, sanitary landfills, and incinerators, upon a finding that said use will not constitute a nuisance because of traffic, noise, odors, smoke, or physical activity; and provided, that all requirements of this title are complied with;

C.

Junkyards; provided:

1.

Any junkyard, scrap yard or salvage yard for which permission is granted under this section shall at all times be subject to the performance standards established in this title;

2.

All outdoor storage areas shall be screened or fenced with a solid fence at least six feet, but not more than eight feet in height, or enclosed with a dense evergreen growth at least six feet in height; storage between the street and such fence or screen is expressly prohibited; maximum height of salvage shall be no greater than one foot below the screened material;

3.

Any junk or salvage yard which offers to the public at retail any new or used merchandise shall provide at least two parking spaces per one hundred square feet of retail floor space;

D.

Landing strip, private;

E.

Kennels;

F.

Meat processing plants;

G.

Fertilizer plants;

H.

Nuclear waste disposal;

I.

Confinement feeding;

J.

Bone yards;

K.

Plants that process animal skins;

L.

Grain Dryers, commercial (three-hundred-foot minimum from the nearest residence other than that of the owner or lessor);

M.

Extraction of earth products.

(§3.42-3 of Ord. dated 10/24/77: (part) of Ord. dated 11/2/65).

No building shall be erected within fifty feet of the right-of-way line of any public road or highway, nor within thirty feet, or one foot for each foot of building height, whichever is the greater, of any lot line.

(§3.42-4 of Ord. dated 10/24/77: (part) of Ord. dated 11/2/65).