The AG-1 district is established to conserve farmland and to encourage continued agricultural activities, thereby helping to ensure that sustainable agriculture will continue as a long term land use and a viable economic activity within the district. The AG-1 district is also established to preserve natural features and the rural landscape, while allowing low density residential development that minimizes its impact on agricultural land, farming operations and sensitive environmental features. The preferred use in the AG-1 district is agriculture. The district is intended to permit a range of uses related to agriculture, to encourage preservation of large blocks of farmland and to permanently protect from development the tracts of land which remain after permitted residential development has occurred. More specifically, the district is established to severely restrict nonfarm development in predominantly agricultural areas in order to:

   A.   Preserve productive agricultural land for continued food and fiber production.

   B.   Protect productive farms from encroachment by incompatible nonfarm uses.

   C.   Maintain the existing agricultural processing and related service industries.

   D.   Preserve the maximum freedom of operation for those legitimate agricultural purposes permitted in the AG-1 district. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

Agriculture.

Farm dwelling unit.

Home occupation, minor.

Private stable.

Public parks and forest preserves.

Roadside stand offering for sale only products grown on the premises.

Transmission and distribution lines and pipelines of public utility companies within existing public rights of way.

Uses customarily accessory to farm operations.

Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent by the zoning officer. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

Other uses incidental to a permitted use. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

The following uses may be allowed as special uses only upon approval by the village board after public hearing and recommendation by the planning commission. See chapter 3, article A of this title for special use permit application procedures.

Agribusiness.

Aircraft hangars/tie downs.

Airstrips/runways and heliports.

Bulk storage of fuel and fertilizers.

Cemetery.

Churches.

Commercial excavation of natural materials and improvements of a stream, lake or river channel and removal of dirt and/or topsoil, quarry, borrow pits.

Density increase for farm dwellings on a single forty (40) acre parcel when the forty (40) acres per dwelling requirement is met on the entire farmstead.

Government buildings.

Grain elevator.

Home occupation, major.

Kennels.

Large SECS.

Large WECS.

Mobile home dwelling for a period of one year with the right of renewal for additional periods of one year for those instances where a unique and substantial hardship is found to be in existence for the protection of property or for the shelter of an immediate blood relative with a severe physical condition, with appropriate documentation.

Private recreational use on land that is located along a body of water.

Public stable.

Recreational camps.

Schools.

Any other similar use deemed to be consistent. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004; amd. Ord. 1523, 9-7-2010; Ord. 1542, 10-17-2011)

No structure shall exceed two and one-half (2.5) stories or thirty five feet (35') for the principal structure. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

The following minimum requirements shall be observed for both primary and accessory buildings. No accessory building shall be located in a front yard.

 

 

(Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

   A.   The AG-2 general agricultural district is established to protect and maintain the agricultural economy and the open space and natural features of rural areas of the village in order to protect lands for continued farming, allow nonfarm residential development on a limited basis, and minimize conflicts between agricultural and nonagricultural areas. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004; amd. 2011 Code)

   B.   The AG-2 district is also established to protect those agricultural lands which, due to their location, soils, and use for agricultural activities, warrant protection from indiscriminate development. However, their proximity to existing development, combined with pressures for new development, makes these lands unsuitable for preservation according to the more restrictive regulations of the AG-1 agricultural preservation district. The AG-2 district is also intended to protect those agricultural lands that would otherwise be subject to residential subdivision activity which could render these important farmlands useless for farming. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

Agriculture.

Cemeteries.

Churches.

Farm dwelling unit.

Governmental uses.

Greenhouses, commercial.

Home occupation (nonimpact, minor impact).

Nurseries, commercial.

Private stable.

Public parks and forest preserves.

Roadside stand offering for sale only products grown on the premises.

Schools.

Transmission and distribution lines and pipelines of public utility companies within existing public rights of way.

Uses customarily accessory to farm operations.

Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent by the zoning officer. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

Other uses incidental to a permitted use. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

The following uses may be allowed as special uses only upon approval by the village board after public hearing and recommendation by the planning commission. See chapter 3, article A of this title for special use permit application procedures.

Agribusiness.

Aircraft hangars/tie downs.

Airstrips/runways and heliports.

Auction barns.

Bulk storage of fuel and fertilizers.

Childcare facilities.

Commercial excavation of natural materials and improvements of a stream, lake or river channel and removal of dirt and/or topsoil, quarry, borrow pits.

Density increase for residential dwellings.

Government buildings.

Grain elevator.

Home occupation (major impact).

Kennels, animal hospitals, veterinary clinics.

Landscape contractors.

Large SECS.

Large WECS.

Mobile home dwelling for a period of one year with the right of renewal for additional periods of one year for those instances where a unique and substantial hardship is found to be in existence for the protection of property or for the shelter of an immediate blood relative with a severe physical condition, with appropriate documentation.

Private recreational use on land that is located along a body of water.

Public or private recreational facilities (i.e., golf course, marina, boat dock).

Public stable.

Recreational camps.

Recreational vehicle parks.

Residential care homes.

Temporary uses.

Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004; amd. Ord. 1523, 9-7-2010; Ord. 1542, 10-17-2011)

No structure shall exceed two and one-half (2.5) stories or thirty five feet (35') for the principal structure. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

The following minimum requirements shall be observed for both primary and accessory buildings. No accessory building shall be located in a front yard.

 

 

(Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)