(A) Intent. This district is intended primarily for application to rural areas of the city, which are generally characterized by extensive or intensive agricultural uses of land.
(B) Permitted principal uses and structures. The following shall be permitted as uses by right:
(1) Any form of agriculture including the raising of crops, horticultural uses, animal husbandry, poultry husbandry, but excluding commercial auction yards and barns and livestock confinement facilities/operations;
(2) Single-family and mobile home dwellings;
(3) Bulk grain storage, both publicly or privately owned or managed; and
(4) Irrigation and flood control projects.
(C) Permitted accessory uses and structures. The following accessory uses and structures shall be permitted:
(1) Accessory uses and structures normally appurtenant to the permitted uses and structures, and to uses and structures permitted as exceptions;
(2) Home occupations, which comply with the provisions of § 152.055.
(3) One-family residences including mobile homes for farm residence or adjacent to farm residences for relatives or farm workers; and
(4) Roadside stands for the sale of agricultural produce grown on the site.
(1) Airports and heliports, including crop dusting strips;
(2) Agricultural service establishment primarily engaged in performing agricultural, animal husbandry, or horticultural services on a fee or contract basis; agricultural product milling and processing; establishments engaged in performing services such as crop dusting, fruit picking, grain cleaning, harvesting, and plowing; farm equipment service and repair;
(3) Public utility and public service structures, including electric transmission lines and distribution substations, and gas regulator stations;
(4) Public and private open recreational facilities, operated for profit or otherwise;
(5) Public and quasi-public uses of an educational or religious type;
(6) Community facilities and institutions, including cemeteries, hospitals, private, noncommercial clubs and lodges;
(7) Public uses of an administrative, public service, or cultural type;
(8) Sewage treatment plants for primary and secondary treatment; public and private sanitary landfills in conformance with § 152.062; gravel plants and asphalt or concrete batch plants;
(9) Irrigation wells, waste retention pits, and silage bunkers;
(10) One single-family rental unit, when the same is rehabilitated or created in an existing structure. Provided, however, no special use permit shall authorize a subdivision thereof;
(11) Commercial kennels;
(12) Alternative energy systems not exceeding 25KW which utilizes biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar and/or wind sources in conformance with "Net Metering" as defined in Neb. RS 70-2001 to 70-2005;
(13) Alternative energy systems that exceed 25 KW and are recognized by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as a Qualifying Facility (QF). The system shall not adjoin any residential zone; and
(14) Salvage or junk yards which comply with the provisions of § 152.061.
(E) Prohibited uses and structures. All other uses and structures which are not specifically permitted or not permissible as special uses shall be prohibited from the AG General Agricultural District.
(F) Special regulations. Provision must be made for disposal of manure and other organic wastes in the manner as to avoid pollution of ground water or any lake or stream.
(G) Minimum lot requirements.
(1) The minimum lot area for single-family dwellings shall be ten acres; or five acres from an existing farmstead as defined in § 152.003 in which a residence and outbuildings, if any, is to be split off from farmland and said home was constructed prior to June 1, 2012.
(2) The minimum lot area for uses prescribed as special uses shall be five acres, subject to approval of the City Council.
(H) Minimum yard requirements.
(1) Front yard. There shall be a minimum front yard of not less than a depth of 75 feet from the centerline of a federal aid-primary or federal aid-secondary designated street or highway or 35 feet from the property line, whichever is greater. On all other streets or highways there shall be a minimum front yard of not less than a depth of 60 feet from the centerline of the street or highway or 25 feet from the property line, whichever is greater; and further, these yard requirements shall apply to any yard abutting a public street or highway regardless of the lot being an interior or corner lot.
(2) Rear yard. There shall be a minimum yard of not less than a depth of 50 feet.
(3) Side yard. Side yards shall not be less than 15 feet.
(4) Distance between structures. The minimum distance between principal structures used for human habitation shall be 90 feet.
(I) Maximum height. No limitations, except as provided for in § 152.030.
(Ord. 905, passed 1-20-2015; Ord. 941, passed 6-6-2017)