A. Agricultural Uses:
1. Characteristics: Uses where the principal activities may include the commercial cultivation of plants, including crop, vegetable, and fruit production, livestock production, and the raising, boarding, and training of domestic animals.
2. Examples: Examples include uses from the two (2) subgroups listed below:
a. Plant Related: Crop farming; vegetable, fruit, and tree farms; wholesale plant nurseries.
b. Animal Related: Livestock operations; dairy farms; horse farms.
3. Accessory Uses: Dwellings for proprietors and their families and for employees of the use; storage buildings; farm outbuildings.
4. Exceptions:
a. Livestock auctions are classified as wholesale sales.
b. Processing of animal or plant products, including processing and packaging of dairy products, is classified as either general or heavy manufacturing.
c. Plant nurseries that are oriented to retail sales are classified as outdoor storage and display oriented retail.
d. Kennels (see definition in chapter 9, article A of this title) are classified as intensive animal related commercial.
5. Prohibited Uses: Stockyards; feedlots and confinement feeding operations.
B. Aviation Related Uses:
1. Characteristics: Facilities for the landing and take off of flying vehicles, including loading and unloading areas and passenger terminals. Aviation facilities may be for commercial carriers or for shared use by private aircraft.
2. Examples: Examples include uses from the two (2) subgroups listed below:
a. Airports: Public and private airports and airstrips.
b. Helicopter Landing Facilities: Heliports; helipads; helistops.
3. Accessory Uses: Freight handling areas; concessions; offices; parking; maintenance, storage, and fueling facilities.
4. Exceptions: Helicopter landing facilities are always classified and regulated as a separate principal use. No helicopter landing facility shall be construed or interpreted as being an integral part of any principal use or as being accessory to any principal use.
C. Extraction Uses:
1. Characteristics: The industrial extraction of sand, gravel, or topsoil for off site use, excluding the process of grading a lot in preparation for constructing a building or infrastructure.
2. Examples: Quarrying or dredging for sand and gravel.
3. Accessory Uses: Offices; storage and transfer facilities.
D. Communication Transmission Facility Uses:
1. Characteristics: All devices, equipment, machinery, structures or supporting elements necessary to produce nonionizing electromagnetic radiation and operating as a discrete unit to produce a signal or message. Towers may be self-supporting, guyed, or mounted on poles or buildings.
2. Examples: Broadcast towers and antennas; wireless communication towers and antennas; point to point microwave towers and antennas; emergency communication broadcast towers and antennas.
3. Accessory Uses: Transmitter facility buildings.
4. Exceptions:
a. Receive only antennas are not included in this category.
b. Shortwave radio towers for personal use are regulated as an accessory use.
c. Radio and television studios are classified in the office category. Their broadcast towers are classified as communication transmission facilities and are regulated as a separate principal use. (Ord. 05-4186, 12-15-2005)
E. Consumer Fireworks Sales Uses:
1. Characteristics: Sales of first-class and/or second-class consumer fireworks, as defined by the American Pyrotechnics Association.
2. Examples: Seasonal sales outlets.
3. Accessory Uses: None. (Ord. 17-4732, 11-21-2017)