The purpose of the A-2 zone is to provide areas in the county for low-density residential development and agricultural uses.

(Prior code § 22-24-1)

Permitted uses in the A-2 zone include:

— Accessory uses and buildings customarily incidental to permitted uses;

— Agriculture;

— Animals and fowl for family food production;

— Apiary;

— Aviary;

— Farm devoted to raising (including fattening as incident to raising), slaughtering, dressing and marketing on a commercial scale of chickens, turkeys or other fowl or poultry, rabbits, chinchilla, beaver, nutria, fish or frogs;

— Fruit and vegetable storage and packing plant;

— Grain storage elevator;

— Home business, subject to Chapter 19.85;

— Home day care/preschool, subject to Section 19.04.293;

— Household pets;

— Raising and grazing of horses, cattle, sheep or goats, including the supplementary feeding of such animals, providing that such raising or grazing is not part of nor conducted in conjunction with any livestock feed yard, livestock sales yard, slaughterhouse, animal byproduct business, or commercial riding academy;

— Residential facility for persons with a disability;

— Single-family dwelling;

— Sugar beet loading station and dump site;

— Worm farming (minimum lot area, one acre).

(Ord. No. 1753, § III, 8-6-2013; Ord. 1535, § 4 (part), 2004; Ord. 1452, § 11, 1999; Ord. 1179, § 5 (part), 1992; 1986 Recodification; § 1 (part) of Ord. passed 2-1-1984; prior code § 22-24-2)

Conditional uses in the A-2 zone include:

— Agriculture experimental station;

— Airport;

— Animal hospital;

— Bed and breakfast homestay;

— Campgrounds;

— Cemetery, etc.;

— Correctional institutions;

— Dairy or creamery;

— Day care/preschool center, subject to Section 19.76.260;

— Dog breeding establishment; dog kennel; dog pound; dog training school;

— Dude ranch;

— Egg candling and sales;

— Fertilizer and soil conditioner manufacturing, processing and sales, provided that no objectionable odors are created;

— Fruit and/or vegetable stand;

— Fur farm;

— Gasohol production for private use only, alcohol storage not to exceed two hundred gallons;

— Golf course;

— Gun club;

— Hay chopping;

— Home day care/preschool, subject to Section 19.04.293;

— Livestock feed yard and/or sales yard;

— Manure spreading, processing, drying and sales;

— Milk processing and sales;

— Nursery and/or greenhouse, excluding retail sales;

— Nursing home;

— Open storage, sales and rental of irrigation pipe;

— Organic disposal site (minimum lot area, fifty acres);

— Pigeons, subject to health department health regulations;

— Planned unit development;

— Plant for storage or packing of fruits or vegetables;

— Private educational institution having an academic curriculum similar to that ordinarily given in public schools;

— Private nonprofit recreational grounds and facilities;

— Public and quasi-public use;

— Public stable;

— Radio and television tower; radio transmitting station; business office; studio and relay station;

— Residential facility for elderly persons;

— Riding academy;

— Rodeo grounds;

— Sanitarium;

— Slaughterhouse;

— Soil composting manufacture and sales;

— Sportsman's kennel (minimum lot area, one acre);

— Stockyard;

— Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work, which buildings must be removed upon completion or abandonment of the construction work. If such buildings are not removed within ninety days upon completion of construction and thirty days after notice, the buildings will be removed by the county at the expense of the owner;

— Veterinary.

(Ord. 1535 § 5 (part), 2004; Ord. 1473 (part), 2001: Ord. 1200 § 4 (part), 1992; Ord. 1198 § 8 (part), 1992; Ord. 1179 § 6 (part), 1992; Ord. 1170 §§ 2 (part), 3 (part), 1991; Ord. 1088 § 5 (part), 1989; 1986 Recodification; § 1 (part) of Ord. passed 2/1/84; (part) of Ord. passed 12/15/82; (part) of Ord. passed 8/21/80; prior code § 22-24-3)

The minimum lot area in the A-2 zone shall be one acre. For radio and television towers, see Section 19.48.040.

(Prior code § 22-24-4)

The minimum width of a lot in the A-2 zone shall be one hundred feet. For radio and television towers, see Section 19.48.050.

(Prior code § 22-24-5)

The minimum depth of the front yard in A-2 zones shall be thirty feet.

(Prior code § 22-24-7)

In A-2 zones, the minimum side yard shall be ten feet. On corner lots, the side yard which faces a street shall be a minimum of twenty feet. For radio and television towers, see Section 19.48.070.

(Prior code § 22-24-6)

The minimum depth of the rear yard in A-2 zones shall be thirty feet.

(Prior code § 22-24-8)

None.

(Prior code § 22-24-9)

In A-2 zones, no building or structure or group of buildings, with their accessory buildings, shall cover more than seventy percent of the lot area.

(Prior code § 22-24-10)