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Sangamon County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 17

10 A Agricultural District

17.10.010 Permitted Uses

Permitted uses in the A district are:

Agriculture

Antenna and utility towers (except wind energy conversion systems)Boarding schools

Churches

Convents and seminaries

Electric distribution centers (except those that are part of a wind energy conversion system)

Electric substations (except those that are part of a wind energy conversion system)

Eleemosynary institutions

Elementary schools

Family care facilities

Family day care centers

Gas regulator stations

Grain haulers

High schools

Home occupations

Institutions for the care of the aged and for children

Junior high schools

Manufactured homes

Meeting halls

Nursery schools

Nursing homes

Oil and gas wells

Philanthropic institutions

Police and fire stations

Polling places

Religious institutions

Rest homes

Single-family residences

Telephone distribution centers

Township offices

Township road commissioner's equipment facility

Truck gardening

Unlighted golf courses

Water well drilling

Waterworks Accessory uses—incidental to the above uses

(Res. 11 Exh. A (part), August 8, 2006; Res. 13 Exh. A (part), June 11, 2002; Res. 12 (part), May 2, 1994; Res. 15 (part), December 3, 1990; Res. 16a §10(part), November 19, 1985; Res. 1 §5(A)(part), November 16, 1982; Res. 9, February 13, 1973)

17.10.020 Conditional Permitted Uses

Conditional permitted uses in the A district are:

Adult-use cannabis craft growers

Adult-use cannabis cultivation centers

Adult-use cannabis transporting organizations

Agricultural chemical sales

Airports Antique stores

Archery, pistol, rifle, and shotgun ranges

Auction and wholesale establishments—restricted to sales of livestock, poultry, fur pelt, crops, plants and other similar agriculture produce

Bait shops

Banquet hall

Battery Energy Storage Systems (see Chapter 17.35 for additional regulations)

Bed and breakfasts

Biodiesel plants

Camping and tenting parks

Cemeteries

Compost facilities, general

Compost facilities, landscape waste

Crematories

Data Centers (see Chapter 17.39 for additional regulations)

Disposal areas, in accord with other applicable county regulations

Dog kennels

Ethanol Plants

Fairgrounds

Farm Machinery Sales

Feed sales

Fertilizer sales and service installation facilities

Field tile installation and facilities

Grain elevators

Greenhouses

Heliports

Hunting, fishing and game preserves

Landscaping companies

Lighted golf courses and driving ranges

Livestock buying stations

Manufactured home parks

Manufactured home sales incidental to operation of manufactured home parks

Mausoleums

Mining

Mushroom barns

Nurseries

Picnic grounds

Private outdoor recreation centers

Public parks

Railroad stations

Restricted landing areas

Riding stables

Sawmills and lumberyards

Seed houses

Sewage treatment plants

Slaughterhouses

Veterinary hospitals

(Res. 12, January 14, 2020; Res. 5, November 14, 2017; Res. 9, February 13, 2007; Res. 8, January 9, 2007; Res. 11 Exh. A (part), August 8, 2006; Res. 13 Exh. A (part), June 11, 2002; Res. 15, March 11, 1997; Res. 12 (part), May 2, 1994; Res. 7 §2, November 19, 1991; Res. 15 (part), November 3, 1990; Res. 16a §§10(part), 23(part), November 19, 1985; Res. 1-1 §5(A)(part), November 16, 1982; Res. 5, April 16, 1974; Res. 9, February 13, 1973)

HISTORY
Amended by Res. Res 5-1 on 4/11/2022
Amended by Res. Res 11-1 on 5/9/2023
Amended by Res. Res 4-1 on 7/8/2025