2.5. AGRICULTURAL – RESIDENTIAL ZONING — Sacramento County Zoning Code

2.5.1. General Purpose ¶

The Agricultural-Residential Zoning Districts established in this Section are designed to promote and protect the public health, safety, and general welfare. Each is distinguished by minimum lot size and is adopted for the following purposes:

To establish living areas within the County where development is limited to low density concentrations of single-family dwellings.
To limit the number of permitted nonresidential uses so as to promote and encourage a suitable environment for family life on parcels of land larger than generally is provided in residential zoning districts.
To protect estate areas against fire, explosions, and other hazards and against offensive noises, odors, glare, and other objectionable influences.
To provide adequate open space and access of light and air for privacy by controls over the spacing and height of buildings.
To permit those religious, educational, recreational, and public cultural facilities that serve the needs of the nearby residents and that generally perform their own activities more effectively in a residential environment and that do not create objectionable influences.
To promote the most desirable use of land and direction of building development in accord with the General Plan, to promote stability and sustainability of land development, to conserve the value of land and improvements and to protect the County’s tax revenues.
To regulate the development of land when not served with both public water supply and public sewerage facilities.

To avoid undue concentration of population and overcrowding of land to lessen congestion in the streets.

2.5.2. Table of Agricultural-Residential Zoning Districts ¶

[AMENDED 07-16-2020]

TABLE 2.3 TABLE OF AGRICULTURAL-RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS

Name of	Abbreviation	Zoning District Summary	Purpose
Zoning
District
Agricultural-	AR-10	10 acres	Allows the keeping of animals
Residential 10			and raising of crops for
			educational, recreational, or
			income purposes
Agricultural-	AR-5	Five acres; same permitted uses	Same as AR-10
Residential 5		as AR-10 except feedlots are not
		allowed
Agricultural-	AR-2	Two acres; same permitted uses	Same as AR-10
Residential 2		as AR-10 except hog farms are
		limited to three adult hogs and
		feedlots are not allowed
Agricultural-	AR-1	One acre; same permitted uses as	Same as AR-10
Residential 1		AR-10 except hog farms and
		feedlots are not allowed