A. Definitions:
ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION: | A lot or facility where the following conditions are met: (i) animals have been, are, or will be stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of forty five (45) days or more in any twelve (12) month period; and, (ii) crops, vegetation, forage growth, or post-harvest residues are not sustained in the normal growing season over any portion of the lot or facility. |
COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE: | A building: (i) used as part of a business that manufactures goods, delivers services, or sells goods or services; (ii) customarily and regularly used by the general public during the entire calendar year; and (iii) connected to electric or water systems. Commercial enterprise does not include an agricultural operation. |
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION: | A building in which any part is used: (i) for more than three (3) hours each weekday during a school year as a public or private elementary school, secondary school, or kindergarten; (ii) a state institution of higher education as defined in Utah Code Annotated section 53B-3-102; or (iii) private institution of higher education in the state accredited by a regional or national accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education. |
HEALTH CARE FACILITY: | The same as that term is defined in Utah Code Annotated section 26-21-2. |
LARGE CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION (L-CAFO): | An animal feeding operation that stables or confines as many as or more than the numbers of animals in the following categories: 1. Seven hundred (700) mature dairy cows, whether milked or dry. 2. One thousand (1,000) veal cows. 3. One thousand (1,000) cattle other than mature dairy cows or veal calves, with "cattle" including heifers, steers, bulls, and cow calf pairs. 4. Two thousand five hundred (2,500) swine each weighing fifty five (55) pounds or more. 5. Ten thousand (10,000) swine each weighing less than fifty five (55) pounds. 6. Five hundred (500) horses. 7. Ten thousand (10,000) sheep or lambs. 8. Fifty five thousand (55,000) turkeys. |
9. Thirty thousand (30,000) laying hens or broilers, if the animal feeding operation uses a liquid manure handling system. 10. One hundred twenty five thousand (125,000) chickens, other than laying hens, if the animal feeding operation uses other than liquid manure handling systems. 11. Eighty two thousand (82,000) laying hens, if the animal feeding operation uses other than a liquid manure handling system. 12. Thirty thousand (30,000) ducks, if the animal feeding operation uses other than a liquid manure handling system. 13. Five thousand (5,000) ducks, if the animal feeding operation uses a liquid manure handling system. | |
MANURE: | Includes manure, bedding, compost, a raw material, or other material commingled with manure and set aside for disposal. |
MULTI-SPECIES LARGE CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION: | A L-CAFO (as defined above) that stables or confines dairy cows, veal calves or cows, cattle, swine, horses, turkeys, laying hens or broilers, chickens, laying hens, ducks, mink or other species of animals and satisfies the requirements of Utah Code Annotated section 17-27a-1104(4) which direct that, "A county shall designate at least one geographic area within the county where large concentrated animal feeding operations for all animal species listed in [Utah Code Ann.] Subsection 17-27a-1102(6) may be located." |
PUBLIC AREA: | Land that: (i) is owned by the federal government, the state, or a political subdivision with facilities that attract the public to congregate and remain in the area for significant periods of time; (ii) is part of a public park, preserve, or recreation area that is owned or managed by the federal government, the state, a political subdivision, or a non-governmental entity; and has a cultural, archaeological, scientific, or historic significance or contains a rare or valuable ecological system, including a site recognized as a Natural Historic Landmark; or, is a cemetery. |
RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION: | A building and grounds used at least monthly for religious services or ceremonies. |
B. Factors Used To Determine The Location Of A Large Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (L-CAFO):
1. The location of large concentrated animal feeding operations shall be determined in keeping with the provisions of this section and Utah Code Annotated section 17-27a-1104, factoring considerations of distances measured in feet from the following:
a. Residential Zones: Varying distances as close as twenty six thousand four hundred feet (26,400') for multi-species large concentrated animal feeding operations and ten thousand five hundred sixty feet (10,560') for cattle, veal calf, or dairy cow operations.
b. Health Care Facilities: Varying distances as close as twenty six thousand four hundred feet (26,400') for multi-species large concentrated animal feeding operations and ten thousand five hundred sixty feet (10,560') for cattle, veal calf, or dairy cow operations.
c. Public Areas: Varying distances as close as ten thousand five hundred sixty feet (10,560') for all large concentrated animal feeding operations.
d. Education Institutions: Varying distances as close as twenty six thousand four hundred feet (26,400') for multi-species large concentrated animal feeding operations and ten thousand five hundred sixty feet (10,560') for cattle, veal calf, or dairy cow operations.
e. Religious Institutions: Varying distances as close as twenty six thousand four hundred feet (26,400') for multi-species large concentrated animal feeding operations and ten thousand five hundred sixty feet (10,560') for cattle, veal calf, or dairy cow operations.
f. Commercial Enterprises: Varying distances as close as ten thousand five hundred sixty feet (10,560') for all large concentrated animal feeding operations.
g. Municipal Boundaries: Varying distances as close as twenty six thousand four hundred feet (26,400') for multi-species large concentrated animal feeding operations and ten thousand five hundred sixty feet (10,560') for cattle, veal calf, or dairy cow operations.
h. State Or County Highways Or Roads: Varying distances as close as five thousand two hundred eighty feet (5,280') for all large concentrated animal feeding operations.
2. Considerations of prevailing winds, topography, economic benefits to the county, and reasonable access to transportation, water, and power infrastructure, as well as other reasonable criteria such as water recharge zones, underground aquifers, and groundwater reservoirs shall also be considered in determining the location of a large concentrated animal feeding operation (L-CAFO).
C. Large Confined Animal Feeding Operation (L-CAFO) Overlay Map: Factoring the considerations set forth within this section and within Utah Code Annotated sections 17-27a-1101 through 17-27a-1104 and subsection B2, the County hereby adopts the Large Confined Animal Feeding Operation Overlay Map attached to Ordinance 2021-09 and hereby incorporated by reference as if laid out fully herein. (Ord. 2021-09, 2-1-2022)