Chapter 17.10 — A—AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT

§ 17.10.010. Purpose. ¶

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an agricultural district to protect and maintain agricultural land for agricultural purposes.

The following regulations shall apply in all A districts and shall be subject to the provisions of Chapters 17.48 through 17.52 .

(Ord. 354 § 17.4.21, 1973)

§ 17.10.020. Uses permitted. ¶

(1) All agricultural uses, including crop and tree farming, livestock farming, except hog, dairy or poultry farming, except the uses indicated in subsection (2) shall not be established until a use permit is first obtained.

(2) Stands for sale of products grown on premises; home occupations. (Ord. 354 § 4.21.1, 1973)

§ 17.10.030. Uses subject to obtaining permit. ¶

Uses permitted subject to first securing a use permit in each case shall be as follows:

(1) Fish and worm farms;
(2) Cattle feed yards and animal sales yards;
(3) Storage, rental and sales of irrigation equipment;
(4) Labor supply and contract labor camps and quarters; construction or trailer park for farm labor;
(5) Packing and agricultural processing plants and commercial storage of fertilizer, stock auction and stock sales yards;
(6) Public and quasi-public uses including churches, schools accredited to the state school system, parks and play grounds, nonprofit recreation, airports and heliports, landing strips, animal

hospital, commercial kennels, boarding kennels, community centers, lodge, club and organization halls and one noncommercial guest house;

(7) Golf course with standard length fairways;

(8) Public utility buildings and uses and service yards. (Ord. 354 § 4.21.2, 1973)

§ 17.10.040. Accessory buildings and uses. ¶

Accessory buildings and uses permitted shall be:

(1) Accessory buildings and accessory uses, including barns, stables and other farm outbuildings, farm labor quarters (structures or trailers) and quarters for servants employed on the premises, one family dwellings, accessory to an agricultural operation on the same building site;
(2) One occupied trailer subject to first obtaining a use permit;
(3) Signs shall be permitted as set out in Chapter 17.55 ; and

(4) Accessory dwelling units, in conformance with the standards of Chapter 17.47 . (Ord. 354 § 4.21.3, 1973; Ord. 808 § 21, 2022)

§ 17.10.050. Maximum height. ¶

Maximum allowable height shall be thirty feet. (Ord. 354 § 4.21.4, 1973)

§ 17.10.060. Minimum building site. ¶

Minimum building site and lot width required, unless combined with any B district shall be as follows:

(1) Building Site. Single-family dwellings and dwellings for farm labor employed on-premises, twenty thousand square feet; additional building site permitted subject to first obtaining a use permit for each additional twenty thousand square feet of building site. Packing and processing of agricultural products, three acres. Labor camps or labor trailer park, three acres. Schools, three acres. All other uses, twenty thousand square feet or as prescribed in the use permit;
(2) Average building site width shall be one hundred feet. Minimum lot width shall be seventy-five feet.
(Ord. 354 § 4.21.5, 1973)

§ 17.10.070. Minimum yard requirements. ¶

Minimum yards required, unless building lines have been established shall be:

(1) Front yard, thirty feet;
(2) Side yard, ten feet;
(3) Rear yard, twenty feet.
(Ord. 354 § 4.21.6, 1973)

§ 17.10.080. Development standards. ¶

Development standards are as follows:

Packing houses; processing of agricultural products, commercial processing and storage of fertilizer and mining shall be subject to the provisions of Chapters 17.54 and 17.56 regarding performance standards.

(Ord. 354 § 4.21.7, 1973)

§ 17.10.090. Minimum off-street parking. ¶

The provisions of Chapter 17.52 shall apply in determining the amount of space that must be provided for each use. The parking space shall be improved as set forth in said chapter. (Ord. 354 § 4.21.8, 1973)