§ 20.7.30. Agricultural use regulations.

Identified on Table 7.A of this Chapter are those land uses or activities that may be permitted within the Agricultural zone district, subject to the provisions of this Title and applicable General Plan policies. Table 7.A also indicates the development procedure and the approval type by which each listed land use or activity may be permitted in an Agricultural zone district.

Table 7.A
Uses Permitted Within the Agricultural District

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■

Not permitted in this District

P

Permitted subject to Consistency Assessment

C

Permitted Subject to approval of a Conditional Use Permit application

	CONDITION OF USE
A. AGRICULTURAL USES
1. Agricultural chemical storage and repackaging	C
2. Agricultural services, when incidental and secondary to the primary use of the premises for agriculture	P
3. Agricultural trucking facilities	C
4. Alcohol distillery	C
5. Animal products processing, including meat packing, canning, and shipping, when the livestock is produced or grown by the owner of the processing facility on the premises or on land leased, rented, or owned by the owner of the processing facility and within a reasonable distance of the facility	C
6. Bee keeping	P
7. Beef cattle or livestock grazing	P
8. Berry crops	P
9. Biomass energy conversion	C
10. Birds, including show or racing pigeons and other small fowl	P
11. Brewery	C
12. Row crops	P
13. Christmas trees	P
14. Cold storage facility for agricultural products	P
15. Contract harvesting	P
16. Cotton gin	C
17. Creamery	C
18. Dairy	■
19. Dairy stock grazing	■
20. Farm machinery and equipment repair	P
21. Fertilizer manufacture and storage for agricultural uses only	C
22. Field crops, dryland	P
23. Field crops, irrigated	P
24. Fish and frogs	P
25. Flowers and horticultural specialties, wholesale only	P
26. Flour mill	C
27. Fruit, vegetable, and plant products processing, including freezing, packing, preserving, and shipping	P
28. Glucose processing	C
29. Grain elevator or storage	C
30. Hogs, hog farm, or ranch	■
31. Honey extraction	P
32. Horses, donkeys, llamas, or mules	P
33. Livestock feed lot or stock auction or sales yard for hoofed animals	■
34. Oil or mineral extraction	C
35. Poultry, including hatching, breeding, butchering, processing, or shipping of chickens, ostriches, emus, turkeys, or other fowl or poultry, including eggs	■
36. Rabbits or fur-bearing animals	P
37. Saw or planing mill	C
38. Sheep or goats farm	■
39. Tasting room, when accessory to an existing winery or brewery	C
40. Winery or brewery	C
41. Wool pulling and scouring	C
B. COMMERCIAL USES
1. Fireworks stand, subject to the provisions of Section 20.11.160 of this Title	P
2. Fruit stand, permanent	P
3. Fruit stand, temporary, pursuant to this chapter	P
4. Veterinary, large animal	P
C. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND SCHOOLS
1. Pre-school	C
2. Elementary school	C
3. Junior high school	C
4. Senior high school	C
5. College or university	C
D. INSTITUTIONAL USES
1. Cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, mortuary, or crematory	C
2. Charitable or public service organization	C
3. Church	C
4. Fire or police station	P
5. Government office or building	P
6. Public agency or public utility buildings and facilities	P
7. Rehabilitation facilities, when operated in conjunction with a permitted use	C
8. Water treatment plant unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then permitted	C
9. Zoo	C
E. MISCELLANEOUS USES
1. Accessory buildings, including cargo containers, if incidental and accessory to a permitted use	C
2. Accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a conditionally permitted use	C
3. Day-care home, large family, pursuant to this Title	C
4. Day-care home, small family	P
5. Drainage sump	C
6. Drainage sump, if proposed and approved as part of a tentative subdivision or tentative parcel map	P
7. Flood control facilities	P
8. Hunting or fishing club, not involving structures	C
9. Water storage or groundwater recharge facilities	P
10. Wild animal keeping	C
11. Wildlife or nature preserve	P
F. RECREATION, ENTERTAINMENT, AND TOURIST FACILITIES
1. Equestrian establishment	C
2. Golf course/driving range	C
3. Guest ranch, when accessory to a commercial ranching operation	C
4. Lakes, private, for recreational skiing or boating	C
5. Park or playground unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then permitted	C
6. Racetrack or test track, automobile, bicycle, horse, or motorcycle	C
7. Recreational vehicle park	C
8. Shooting range or gun club, simulated war games, or similar activities, outdoor only	C
9. Trade fairs and exhibitions, temporary (14 day maximum), excluding flea markets and swap meets (subject to provision of 20.2.120. of this Title)	P
G. RESIDENTIAL USES
1. Farm labor housing for on-site employees	C
2. Farm labor housing for contract labor	C
3. Residential accessory structures	C
4. Residential facility, serving six or fewer persons	C
5. Single-family dwelling, occupied by the owner or full-time on-site employee	P
H. RESOURCE EXTRACTION AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT USES
1. Coal-fired cogeneration facility or steam generators, primarily intended for production of oil or gas	C
2. Cogeneration facility or steam generators, primarily intended for steam production used for production of oil or gas, excluding coal fired	C
3. Concrete or asphalt batch plant, temporary	C
4. Electrical power generating plant	C
5. Explosives storage, temporary	C
6. Explosives storage, permanent	C
7. Mineral exploration	C
8. Mining and mineral extraction pursuant to provisions of this Title	C
9. Oil or gas exploration and production pursuant to provisions of this Title	P
10. Rock, gravel, sand, or soils, crushing, processing, or distribution, when accessory to an approved mining operation	C
11. Solar energy electrical generators with a rated capacity of no greater than five kilowatts for on-site consumption of the electricity	P
12. Solar energy electrical generators, commercial or domestic, exceeding five kilowatts capacity	C
13. Wind-driven electrical generators for consumption of electricity	C
I. TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES
1. Airport, private (If not within an approved airport plan)	C
2. Airport, public (If not within an approved airport plan)	C
3. Heliport (If not within an approved airport plan)	C
4. Rail, Rail Freight Classification or Switching Yard, and Rail Spurs	P
J. UTILITY AND COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES
1. Radio, television or commercial communications transmitter, receiver, or translator, except as specified in this Title	P
2. Transmission lines and supporting towers, poles, microwave towers, and underground facilities for gas, water, electricity, telephone, or telegraph service owned and operated by a public utility company or other company under the jurisdiction of the California Public Utilities Commission pursuant to this Title	C
3. Utility substation	P
K. WASTE FACILITIES
1. Hazardous waste disposal facility unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then permitted	C
2. Nonhazardous oil production and/or oily waste disposal facility unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then permitted	C
3. Sanitary landfill unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then permitted	C
4. Septage disposal site unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then permitted	C
5. Sewage sludge composting unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then permitted	C
6. Sewage treatment plant unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then permitted	C
7. Transfer station, large and small volume unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then permitted	C
8. Waste to energy facility unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then permitted	C
L. Other uses similar to, and no more objectionable than the uses identified above, shall be reviewed per the process required by the similar use, subject to the provisions of Section 20.1.90 of this Title

 

(Ord. No. 2008-1174, § 1(Exh. A), 5-5-2008)