§ 20.7.40. Agricultural design and development standards.  


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  • 1.

    Lot Area Requirements.

    a.

    Except when conducted as an accessory to a residential use of a nonfarm parcel, agricultural uses shall require a minimum area of twenty acres, and no farm parcel shall be subdivided from a parent tract unless it meets the minimum area requirement for agricultural uses.

    b.

    Farm parcels under the Williamson Act Contract and designated as Agricultural on the General Plan shall be a minimum of eighty acres in size.

    c.

    Parcels that are conveyed to or from a governmental agency, public entity, community or mutual water company, or public utility for public purposes shall be exempt from the minimum lot area requirements of this Chapter.

    d.

    Minimum lot area requirements for uses established as an accessory use to a primary agricultural use in compliance with conditions of approval of a conditional use permit shall be exempt from minimum lot area requirements.

    2.

    Site Development Minimum Standards.

    a.

    In addition to the minimum standards established in Table 7.B. of this Chapter, development within the Agricultural zone district shall also comply with the special requirements contained in this Chapter, Chapter 20.12 (Performance Standards), other applicable City standards, regulations, or ordinances, and the City General Plan.

    Table 7.B
    Agricultural Site Development Minimum Standards

    REQUIREMENTS
    1. Minimum site area 20 acres
    2. Minimum site width (in feet) 400 feet
    3. Minimum site depth (in feet) 800 feet
    4. Front building setback (in feet) 50 feet
    5. Side street building setback (in feet) 50 feet
    6. Rear setback (in feet) 50 feet
    7. Maximum floor area ratio 0.10
    8.  Maximum Building height (in feet) 50 feet

     

    Structures such as silos, windmills, and communication antennas and towers may exceed height limit subject to approval by the Community Development Director.

    b.

    No new slaughter area, area for the storage or processing of manure, garbage, or spent mushroom compost, structures for the cultivation of mushrooms shall be permitted. The raising of livestock shall not be permitted within two hundred feet of any existing residence located on an adjacent property.

    c.

    There shall be a minimum of ten feet between a residential building and a nonresidential structure, except that animals, pens, coops, stables, barns, corrals, other structures for housing livestock and buildings for processing, packing, or storing agricultural produce shall be at least one hundred feet away from any residential building.

    d.

    There shall be a minimum of twenty feet between an on-site residential building and an aviary.