The AP agriculture preserve district is intended to provide an area primarily for agricultural uses or the extraction of the various products such as oil, minerals, rock and gravel from the earth on parcels of ten (10) acres or more in size. It is the purpose of this district to protect such uses from urban densities and intensities of development principally in the Stagestand Creek drainage basin and in areas with similar rural and agricultural characteristics as the Stagestand Creek drainage basin. The district is considered appropriate as the zoning district applied to rural areas annexed, may be applied to existing areas characterized as rural or low density, and is intended to implement the Highway 7 corridor study recommendations and preserve the rural, agricultural nature rural and low density areas, while providing for rural low density development that will require minimal public improvements and services. Large lot residential subdivision tracts are permitted, but public sewer is not provided, although public water may be available near boundaries within the Claridy Creek drainage basin. Private sewage lagoons shall not be considered an acceptable form of sewage disposal within the city limits. This district is designed to encourage a wide variety of agricultural development while restricting the subdivision of land into parcels too small to farm to meet the definition of "agriculture" and/or "agriculture preserve". It is not intended that this district provide a location for urban service standards of residential development that is authorized in other districts. (Ord. 1558, 2-25-2003)