The authorization of a building, structure or use that is not designated as permitted within a district, but if specifically listed, may be permitted if it meets special conditions, and upon application, is specifically authorized by the City Board of Zoning Appeals. The following buildings, structures, and uses can be permitted in any agricultural district provided a special exception is obtained by the criteria as set forth in Chapter 12, Board of Zoning Appeals.
A. Agricultural special exceptions:
Agricultural equipment sales and service
Agricultural chemical and fertilizer sales
Animal and crop processing
Confinement feeding
Grain elevators and storage (commercial)
Kennels (domesticated or wild)
Livestock buyers offices
Slaughterhouses
Stockyards
B. Residential special exceptions:
Alcoholism and drug abuse treatment centers apartments
Bed and breakfast facilities
Cemeteries, crematories, and mausoleum
Child care for 5 to 15 children; state license required
Children's homes and children's halfway houses
Community services (ambulance depot, emergency, and protective shelters, fire station, water tower, water treatment plants, etc.)
Condominiums
Electronic communication tower
Funeral homes
Halfway house
Home occupations, traffic generating
Hospitals and clinics
Manufactured/mobile home parks
Mental health facilities
Multi-family dwelling units
Real estate office, including model homes
Parking lots, for uses other than those permitted as of right in an agricultural district
Personal care, including nursing home, adult care, child care, and retirement (self-care) home
Public or private primary or secondary schools
C. Open land use special exceptions:
Airports
Aircraft sales, rental, leasing, and service
Airline companies
Auction barns
Bait and tackle sales and service
Boarding houses
Boat sales, rental, and service
Campgrounds
Coal and coke (retail)
Contractor's yard
Clubs
Golf course
Landscape architect's offices
Lodges and fraternity/sorority organizations
Lumberyards
Mining, metal ore, coal and coke, shaft
Mining, limestone, marble, gravel, and other stone quarry
Mining, petroleum and natural gas, well
Railroad yards and stations
Recreational facilities (commercial)
Resorts
Rifle and pistol ranges
Sanitary landfills (not including hazardous waste)
Swimming pool (public)
Youth organization or center
D. Public structures and utilities special exceptions:
Bomb shelters
Correctional institutions
Electric utility company office and buildings
Highway maintenance garages
Military installation
Public utility buildings
Radio and television towers
Sewage treatment plant
Water treatment plant
(1980 Code, Ch. 156, § 4.03) (Ord. 1995-7, passed 6-5-1995)