As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
(1) Active farm shall mean a parcel of land which is currently being used for agricultural production.
(2) Agricultural production shall mean the production for commercial purposes of crops, livestock and livestock products, and nursery and greenhouse products, including the processing or retail marketing of these crops, livestock and livestock products, and nursery and greenhouse products, if more than fifty (50) percent of those processed or merchandised products are produced by the farm operator and the raising and stabling of horses for commercial purposes, and shall also include any of the following: dairying, pasturage, growing crops, bee keeping, horticulture, floriculture, orchards, plant nurseries, viticulture, silviculture, aquaculture and animal and plant husbandry; the breeding, raising, training and general care of livestock for uses other than food, such as sport or show purposes; and construction and maintenance of barns, silos and other similar structures, the use of farm machinery, the primary processing of agricultural products and the sale of agricultural products produced on the land where the sales are made.
(3) Application shall mean the documentation and information submitted to the rural land staff by a landowner on the approved application form offering to sell to the rural land board or the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government a conservation easement in eligible land.
(4) Comprehensive plan shall mean the land use plan, and amendments thereto, adopted by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government pursuant to KRS 100.197.
(5) Conservation easement shall mean a non-possessory interest in real property, which is acquired in perpetuity for the purpose of retaining and enhancing agriculture; preserving natural, scenic or open space values of real property; preserving areas or structures of architectural or historical interest; restricting or preventing the development or improvement of the land for purposes other than agricultural production; or other like or similar purposes, but does not include any real property owned or leased by the government for the purpose of or devoted to parks and recreation.
(6) Conservation easement value shall mean the value of a conservation easement on the parcel of land as determined by the difference between the unrestricted value of the tract and its value as restricted by a conservation easement.
(7) Reserved.
(8) Rural service area land management plan shall mean the element of the comprehensive plan adopted by the planning commission of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government on April 8, 1999, and shall include any future portions of the comprehensive plan, and amendments thereto, pertaining to the rural service area.
(9) Rural land staff shall mean the personnel within the office of administrative services charged by the council with the duty to administer this chapter.
(Ord. No. 4-2000, § 1, 1-13-00; Ord. No. 272-2007, §§ 1, 2, 12-6-07; Ord. No. 17-2019 , § 1, 3-21-2019)