The A agricultural zone is intended to protect and preserve areas of prime agricultural soils for continued agricultural and agriculturally oriented uses. These areas consist of the most agriculturally productive soils. Their loss cannot be readily compensated, since these soils are relatively scarce, particularly on the natural level, and poorer soils require more capital energy and nutrients to provide equal productivity.

(Ord. No. 20-307, 10-6-2020)

The following uses are allowed in the A agricultural zone:

A.

One single-family detached dwelling of a permanent nature in a permanent location.

B.

General agriculture.

C.

Agricultural animal production.

D.

Custom animal processing.

E.

Agricultural entertainment and commercial uses.

F.

The growing or production of trees, shrubs, bushes, sod, and other plants for nursery stock, off-site milling and processing, off-site commercial sale, and other uses.

G.

Agricultural and horticultural uses for domestic purposes and incidental to the permitted uses. Uses also include community gardens.

H.

Seasonal stands, holiday sales and uses.

I.

Harvesting, curing, processing, packaging and storage incidental to the principal permitted uses on the premises and shipping of agricultural products produced on the premises.

J.

Beekeeping.

K.

Veterinary services, indoor and outdoor.

L.

Equestrian establishments.

M.

Farm machinery equipment sales and services associated with the permitted onsite agriculture use.

N.

Animal boarding and grooming facilities, indoor and outdoor.

O.

Agriculture buildings such as barns, grain silos, water towers, and storage facilities for products, machinery and equipment directly related to the agricultural uses taking place on the premises.

P.

The keeping of five or more dogs or three or more pot-belly pigs more than twelve weeks of age. A minimum of ten acres is required.

(Ord. No. 20-307, 10-6-2020)

Unless stated otherwise, the following uses may be permitted subject to securing a special use permit as provided for in Chapter 17.03, Administrative Provisions:

A.

Wild animal keeping.

B.

Recreation, outdoor passive.

C.

Boarding accommodations for laborers and other persons directly associated with the permitted agricultural use. A principal building is not required for accessory structures incidental to allowed agriculture uses on the premises; however, a principal single-family residential dwelling is required for an accessory dwellings to be approved.

D.

Boarding accommodations including bed and breakfast inns, dude ranches, and other transient lodging associated with an allowed agricultural use.

E.

Other uses similar to the above which are determined by the board with action by the planning commission to be consistent with the uses permitted within the zone.

F.

Public utility and transmission substations, water storage facilities and storm water drainage, detention, retention and storage.

(Ord. No. 20-307, 10-6-2020)

Parcels zoned "A" agricultural must be at least three acres, except for the public utility use listed above in consideration with the special use permit.

(Ord. No. 20-307, 10-6-2020)

Required setbacks for the principal residential dwelling are the minimum setbacks of the abutting zone, but no less than ten feet. Accessory buildings, including laborer boarding accommodations, must be setback a minimum of one hundred feet from any property line. The required setback for other rooming and boarding accommodations, such as bed and breakfast inns and dude ranches allowable by this chapter, are the minimum setbacks of the abutting zone, but no less than twenty feet, unless more stringent setback requirements are imposed as a condition of the special use permit. Setbacks are from the property line except when an encroaching easement exists for the purpose of providing a public or private road, but not driveway (see Section 17.12.090 for explanation and illustration).

(Ord. No. 20-307, 10-6-2020)

No building may exceed a height of three stories or thirty-five feet, whichever is higher, except as may be allowed by a special use permit. The requirements of this section do not apply to church spires, belfries, cupolas, domes, chimneys, grain silos, water towers, or flagpoles. Radio, television, other communication antenna, and wind energy turbine support structures are regulated by Section 17.12.044, Height of buildings and structures.

(Ord. No. 20-307, 10-6-2020)

Home enterprises, including in-home child care, are regulated pursuant to Chapter 17.12, General Provisions.

(Ord. No. 20-307, 10-6-2020)

No single-family dwelling may have a floor area of less than eight hundred square feet for a one-bedroom residence; one thousand square feet for a two-bedroom residence; and one thousand two hundred square feet for a three or more bedroom residence.

(Ord. No. 20-307, 10-6-2020)