(A) General description. The A-G General Agricultural District is established for several purposes:
(1) To provide for the continued use of land for predominantly agricultural purposes;
(2) To preserve undeveloped areas until they can feasibly be developed to urban standards and with adequate public safeguards of health, safety and the like; and
(3) To restrict development in areas subject to severe inundation until such time as it can be shown that these areas are no longer subject to flooding.
(B) Uses permitted. Within the A-G District, the following uses are permitted:
(1) General uses.
(a) Agriculture, as defined in this chapter;
(b) Churches and temples;
(c) Elementary schools and high schools;
(d) Golf courses, but not including golf driving ranges, pitch and putt courses or miniature golf courses;
(e) Parks and forest preserves not operated for profit;
(f) Single-family dwellings;
(g) Temporary buildings and uses for construction purposes only and not for dwelling purposes, nor for a period that exceeds the completion of the construction; and
(h) Accessory buildings or uses incidental to the foregoing principal uses.
(2) Municipal and public uses.
(a) Municipal or community recreation centers;
(b) Police or fire stations;
(c) Public buildings or buildings operated in the public interest by a not for profit corporation, including art galleries, post offices, libraries or museums;
(d) Public or not for profit auditoriums, stadiums, arenas, armories or sanatoriums;
(e) Public or private hospitals or sanatoriums;
(f) Public or private schools or colleges; and
(g) Public utility and service uses, including electric substations; gas regulator stations; electric, gas, telegraph, telephone and water transmission metering and distribution equipment and structures; microwave, television, radio relay/repeater towers, water reservoirs or pumping stations and other similar facilities.
(C) Area and height regulations.
(1) Table of requirements.
Minimum Lot Area | Minimum Lot Frontage | Maximum Percent Coverage | Minimum Front Yard Setback | Side Yard Setback | Minimum Rear Yard Setback |
2.5 acres | 200 feet | 10% | 50 feet | 30 feet | 50 feet |
(2) Accessory buildings. Accessory buildings may have not less than ten feet of side or back yard setback.
(D) Signs and billboards. No signs, posters, bulletin boards or other similar displays are permitted in the A-G District except as follows:
(1) Bulletin boards. One bulletin board may be erected on each street frontage of an educational, religious, institutional or similar use requiring an announcement of its activities. The bulletin board shall not exceed 12 square feet in surface area nor 15 feet in height, and illumination, if any, shall be by constant light.
(2) Identification signs. One identification sign may be erected on each street frontage of a single-family subdivision or permitted nonresidential use. The sign shall not exceed 12 square feet in surface area nor 15 feet in height, and illumination, if any, shall be by constant light.
(3) Real estate signs. A real estate sign advertising the sale, rental or lease of the premises may be erected on each street frontage of the parcel. The sign restrictions shall be as set out in divisions (D)(1) and (D)(2) above.
(Prior Code, § 10-2E-1) Penalty, see § 152.99