Chapter 17.420 — A-20 (INTENSIVE AGRICULTURAL) ZONE (§ 17.420.001 – § 17.420.005)

The purpose of the A-20 (intensive agricultural) zone is to provide for intensive agricultural uses and to preserve lands best suited for intensive long-term agricultural use against urban encroachment and to prevent the intrusion of incompatible activities.

(Ord. 408, 1987)

All uses identified as permitted uses within the A-10 zone, Section 17.410.002, are permitted uses within the A-20 zone.

(Ord. 408, 1987)

All uses identified as a conditionally permitted use within the A-10 zone Section 17.410.003, except 17.410.003D, commercial recreational uses, are conditionally permitted uses within the A-20 zone, and permitted only on the granting of a conditional use permit pursuant to Chapter 17.830.

(Ord. 408, 1987)

The following development regulations shall apply to the A-20 zone:

A.

Minimum lot area: twenty acres;

B.

Minimum lot width: five hundred feet;

C.

Minimum front yard: fifty feet;

D.

Minimum side yard: twenty-five feet;

E.

Minimum rear yard: fifty feet;

F.

Yards—accessory buildings and structures:

1.

Minimum setback from main building: eight feet except for accessory buildings housing animals or livestock which shall be set back thirty feet,

2.

Minimum rear yard: twenty feet,

Minimum side yard: ten feet,

4.

No accessory building or structure housing animals, grain-fed rodents, bees, birds or poultry shall be located nearer than fifty feet of any residential land use district or main building on an adjacent lot;

G.

Maximum Building Height. No accessory or main building shall exceed a height of two-and-one-half stories or thirty-five feet, unless a greater building height is approved by a conditional use permit. (Ord. 408, 1987)

A.

Off-street parking shall be provided pursuant to Chapter 17.620 and Section 17.100.004H.

B.

Design review shall be required for all housing units pursuant to Section 17.100.003 and 17.100.004. C.

Accessory buildings shall be prohibited in any required front yard.

D.

A water well with minimum enclosure shall be permitted in any required front yard provided the well site is in the only possible location on the property.

(Ord. 408, 1987)