17-7-1.14 Agricultural overlay zone.
The agricultural overlay zone is intended to provide additional standards for the development of agricultural and farm related uses within the district. The agricultural overlay zone informs the owners of the standards that will be applied in approving or denying proposed developments. The agricultural overlay zone does not supersede but rather supplements other provisions in this title, and the specific requirements and parameters included therein shall apply.
A. Boundaries. The requirements of the agricultural overlay zone (AO zone) shall apply to all properties within the agricultural overlay zone boundaries depicted on the zoning map.
B. Specific Conditional Use Criteria. Applications for agricultural and farm related uses shall be processed as a conditional use as described in Section 17-7-1.9(A), with the following specific criteria supplementing the foregoing zone standards:
1. Lot Area. The minimum buildable lot area is seven thousand square feet. The minimum lot area for the keeping of any fowl, poultry, rabbit, chinchilla, or for the raising or grazing of horses, cattle, sheep or goats shall be one acre (forty-three thousand five hundred sixty square feet);
2. Build-To Line. There is no build-to line in the AO zone;
3. Barn. An accessory structure with a building footprint of up to thirteen percent of the lot area is allowed in the AO zone on lots one acre in size or larger to support the husbandry of live animals;
4. Setbacks for Unoccupied Accessory Structures Which Support Agricultural Uses. All accessory structures which support an agricultural use shall be set back a minimum of forty feet from any habitable structure or any property line;
5. Manure Management. The applicant shall submit and shall implement a manure management plan, which shall effectively mitigate the adverse effects on neighbors of animal waste, pests and odor; and
6. Fencing. Electrically charged fencing may be erected in the AO zone; provided, that the fence is located ten feet inside a perimeter fence of six feet in height. (Ord. 2022-03A § 1 (Att. A); Ord. 5/07/2002B § 1; Ord. 11-13-2001 § 2 (part). Formerly 17-7-1.15)