(a) Purpose. The A-1 Agricultural District is intended to provide for the continuation of general non-livestock or limited livestock farming and related uses in those areas of the Village of Edgar that are not yet committed to urban development. It is further intended for this District to protect lands contained therein from urban development until their orderly transition into urban-oriented districts is required.
(b) Permitted Uses. The following are permitted uses in the A-1 District:
(1) General non-livestock farming, including crop-raising agriculture, floriculture, forestry, grazing, hay, orchards, truck farming and viticulture (grape growing).
(2) General livestock farming with one hundred (100) or fewer livestock units.
(3) Forestry, grazing, nurseries, orchards, and truck farming.
(4) Harvesting of wild crops and management of wildlife including nonresidential buildings used solely in conjunction with such activity.
(5) In-season roadside stands for the sale of farm products produced on the premises, and up to two (2) unlighted signs not larger than eight (8) square feet each advertising such sale.
(6) Customary home occupations.
(7) One (1) and two (2) family farm residences and a single mobile home, but only when occupied by owners and/or persons engaged in farming activities on the farm on which it is located.
(8) Woodlots and tree farms.
(9) Production of forest crops, including tree plantations.
(10) Class 2 collocation of a new mobile service facility on an existing support structure without substantial modification, per Section 13-1-182.
(c) Permitted Accessory Uses. The following are permitted accessory uses in the A-1 District:
(1) Attached or detached private garages and carports accessory to permitted or permitted accessory uses.
(2) General farm buildings including barns, silos, sheds, storage bins and including not more than one (1) roadside stand for the sale of farm products produced on the premises. Any such stand shall conform to the setback, sign and other provisions of this Chapter.
(3) One (1) farm dwelling. The only residences allowed as permitted uses on newly established parcels are those to be occupied by a person who or a family at least one (1) member of which earns a substantial part of his or her livelihood from farm operations on the parcel or is related to the operator of the larger farm parcel from which the new parcel is taken. Preexisting residences located in areas subject to zoning under this Section which do not conform to this paragraph may be continued in residential use. The minimum parcel size to establish a residence or a farm operation is thirty-five (35) acres. No structure or improvement may be built on the land unless consistent with agricultural uses.
(4) Private garages and parking space.
(5) Private swimming pool and tennis court.
(6) Home occupations and professional home offices per Section 13-1-93.
(7) Signs as regulated by this Zoning Code.
(8) Buildings temporarily located for purposes of constructing on the premises for a period not to exceed time necessary for such constructing.
(9) Gardening and other horticultural uses where no sale of products is conducted on the premises.
(d) Conditional Uses. The following are conditional uses in the A-1 District:
(1) Airports, airstrips and landing fields provided that the site is not less than twenty (20) acres.
(2) Housing for farm laborers and seasonal or migratory farm workers.
(3) Transmitting towers, receiving towers, relay and microwave towers without broadcast facilities or studios; siting and construction of any new mobile support structure and/or facility or a Class 1 collocation of a new mobile service facility on an existing support structure, per Section 13-1-182.
(4) Utilities.
(5) Veterinary clinics, provided that no structure or animal enclosure shall be located closer than one hundred fifty (150) feet to a property boundary. [074, 075]
(6) Public and parochial schools, provided no building shall be located within fifty (50) feet of any lot line.
(7) Churches, including those related structures located on the same site which are an integral part of the church proper, convents or homes for persons related to a religious function on the same site, provided no more than ten (10) persons shall reside on the site and no building shall be located within fifty (50) feet of any lot line.
(8) Golf courses, country clubs, tennis clubs or public swimming pools serving more than one (1) family. The principal structure for any of the above listed uses shall be one hundred (100) feet or more from any abutting lot in a Residential District, and accessory structures shall be a minimum of fifty (50) feet from any lot line.
(9) Essential service structures, including but not limited to buildings such as telephone exchange stations, booster or pressure-regulating stations, wells, pumping stations, elevated tanks, lift stations and electrical power substations, provided no building shall be located within ten (10) feet from any lot line of an abutting lot in a Residential District. Prior to granting such permit, it shall be found that the architectural design of service structures is compatible to the neighborhood in which it is to be located and thus will promote the general welfare.
(10) Hospitals for human care, sanitariums, rest homes, and nursing homes, provided that all structures, except fences, shall be located one hundred (100) feet or more from the lot line of any abutting lot in a Residential District.
(11) Cemeteries.
(12) Kennels, greenhouses and other agricultural uses that may cause noxious odors or noise, or create health or sanitation hazards.
(13) Campgrounds, tourist camps and travel trailer parks, subject to the provisions of this Chapter and the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
(14) Trap or skeet shooting facilities, target ranges, gun clubs, shooting preserves.
(e) Lot, Yard and Building Requirements.
(1) Lot Frontage. Minimum two hundred (200) feet.
(2) Lot Area. Minimum two (2) acres.
(3) Principal Building.
a. Front Yard: Minimum eighty (80) feet.
b. Side Yards: Minimum fifty (50) feet.
c. Rear Yard: Minimum fifty (50) feet.
(4) Accessory Building.
a. Front Yard: Minimum eighty (80) feet.
b. Side Yards: Minimum forty-five (45) feet.
c. Rear Yard: Minimum forty-five (45) feet.
d. Building Height: Maximum fifty (50) feet.