1.   Intent. The agricultural district is intended and designed to preserve agricultural land from encroachment of urban land uses. Its further purposes are:

      A.   Facilitating adequate police, fire, and sanitary protection for residential uses.

      B.   Discouraging the scattering of commercial or industrial uses into outlying areas, resulting in excessive requirements and costs for public services.

   2.   Principal Permitted Uses.

      A.   Public parks, playgrounds, and recreation areas.

      B.   Publicly operated golf clubs, swimming pools, country clubs, or other similar recreation uses, provided that any principal or accessory building in connection therewith shall be located not less than 200 feet from any lot in an R District.

      C.   Public schools and educational facilities.

      D.   Cemeteries.

      E.   Farming, dairying, poultry husbandry and other allied agricultural operations.

      F.   Nursery and greenhouse, and buildings and structures necessary for the sale of their products, provided said buildings are located not less than 20 feet from any lot line.

      G.   Non-farm, single-family detached dwellings.

      H.   Farm dwellings, with all accessory buildings necessary to continue farming operation, provided that no building or confined feed lot, etc., other than a dwelling is located closer than 200 feet to any R District.

   3.   Accessory Uses.

      A.   Essential service facilities, including but not limited to poles, towers, pipes, vaults, and valves.

      B.   Picnic shelters, playground equipment, storage sheds, clubhouses, bath houses which shall not be used as dwellings.

      C.   Buildings, structures, and uses accessory to agricultural uses such as roadside stands, selling produce grown on the premises, provided such roadside stands are located not less than 20 feet from a street or highway right-of-way line.

      D.   Private garages or parking areas.

      E.   Signs accessory to roadside stands shall be limited to two signs per lot with no sign being larger than 10 square feet in area and set back 10 feet from the right-of-way of a street or highway.

   4.   Area Regulations.

      A.   Lot Area. The minimum lot area shall be five acres.

      B.   Lot Width. The minimum lot width shall be 150 feet.

      C.   Yard Widths:

         (1)   The minimum front yard shall be 50 feet.

         (2)   The minimum rear yard shall be 50 feet.

         (3)   The minimum side yard being 50 feet; minimum on one side being 25 feet for residential and 50 feet on each side for other uses.

      D.   Building Height. The maximum building height shall be two and one-half stories, with a maximum height of 35 feet.