§ 15.31

The minimum area of any lot or parcel of land in this zone shall be one hundred forty-four (144) acres. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The maximum building height in the RZ zone shall be:

1. Thirty-five feet for residential structures;

2. Fifty feet for commercial and agricultural buildings or structures; 3. Exceptions: Water tanks, silos, granaries, barns, pole buildings, electronic towers, antennas and similar structures or necessary mechanical appurtenances may exceed fifty feet in height. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.31.070 Minimum Distance Between Structures 1. The distance between any accessory building and a dwelling unit shall conform to Uniform Building and Fire Codes. 2. All stables, barns, sheds, shelters, paddocks, riding stables, and exercise yards for animals shall be located not less than one hundred feet from all property and street right-of-way lines. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.31.080 Minimum Yard Requirements 1. Front Yard. The minimum front yard shall be thirty feet. Measurement shall start at the edge of the existing county right-of-way as shown on the adopted Glenn County Circulation Plan. 2. Side Yards. The minimum side yards shall be twenty-five feet. 3. Rear Yard. The minimum rear yard shall be twenty-five feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006) 15.32 FA - Foothill Agricultural/Forestry Zone 15.32.010 Purpose 15.32.020 Permitted Uses 15.32.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit 15.32.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit 15.32.050 Site Area 15.32.060 Maximum Building Height 15.32.070 Minimum Distance Between Structures 15.32.080 Minimum Yard Requirements 15.32.090 Site Plan Review 15.32.010 Purpose This zoning classification is established for the following purposes: 1. To provide areas for extensive agricultural activities; 2. To protect the timber and forest lands economically suitable for logging. ((Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008) 15.32.020 Permitted Uses

The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the FA zone:

1. One single-family dwelling or mobilehome for each one hundred sixty acres, private farm buildings, accessory buildings, and uses. (refer to mobilehome standards); 2. Home occupations if a permit is secured pursuant to Chapter 15.78;

2. Growing and harvesting forest products;

3. Logging and sawmill operations and accessory buildings and uses;

4. Growing and harvesting of any agricultural crop or product;

5. The use of implements of husbandry, including aircraft when used in the growing of crops or raising of animals, except as may be regulated by other laws or regulations; 7. Game preserves and hunting clubs, private or public, but shall not include permanent facilities such as hotels, motels, restaurants, club houses; 8. Agricultural service establishments primarily engaged in performing agricultural animal husbandry services or horticultural services to farmers; 9. Temporary landing of aircraft engaged in agricultural uses;

6. Livestock farming, including the raising, feeding, maintaining and breeding of horses, cattle, sheep, goats and similar livestock;

7. Accessory buildings or structures required for the storage of any crops, products, equipment or uses lawfully permitted or produced on the premises;

8. The keeping of fowl and animals shall conform to all other provisions of law governing same. No pen, coop, stable, barn or corral used for fowl and animals shall be kept or maintained within fifty feet of any dwelling or other building used for human habitation, or within one hundred feet of the front lot line of the lot upon which it is located, or within twenty-five feet of the street side of a corner lot, or within one hundred feet of any parcel of land used for a public park, school or similar institution;

9. Stands for the purpose of displaying and selling agricultural, floricultural or farming products which are grown or produced on the premises, provided that there shall be not more than one stand per lot or parcel of land. The ground coverage of the stand shall not exceed three hundred square feet and it shall be set back from the street or highway right-of-way a distance of at least twenty feet. Such stand must be of good frame construction;

10. Windmills, tank houses, buildings or shelters for farm equipment and machinery, water wells, water reservoirs and storage tanks.

11. One second dwelling subject to Chapter 15.175. (Ord. 1263 § 6, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.32.030 Uses Permitted With A Conditional Use Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted in the FA zone only if a conditional use permit has first been secured:

1. Commercial storage and handling of agricultural chemicals;

2. Farm labor camps and structures for transient labor;

3. Commercial hog and pig farming;

4. Animal sales yards;

5. Commercial stables, riding academies;

6. Public and private nonprofit nursery schools, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and colleges; 7. Churches, public playgrounds and parks;

7. Sales and services to farmers or farm-related activities;

8. Government buildings and properties;

9. Kennels, animal hospitals and veterinarian’s offices;

10. Public utility buildings and public service or utility uses (transmission and distribution lines excepted), including but not limited to reservoirs, storage tanks, pumping stations, telephone exchanges, power stations, transformer stations, service yards and parking lots; 12. Cemeteries, crematories and mausoleums; 13. Commercial storage (storage for resale) of inflammable fluid or gas fuels in a quantity greater than five hundred gallons in any container less than two and one-half feet below the surface of the ground; 14. New confined animal facilities;

11. Confined animal facility expansion. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

15.32.040 Uses Permitted With An Administrative Permit

The following uses and structures may be permitted only if an administrative permit has first been secured:

1. Natural gas wells;

2. Agricultural Homestay Establishment. (Ord. 1263 § 7, 2017; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)