All farm operations currently in existence that are under ten acres in size will be permitted to continue operation subject to the following conditions:
(A) Farming operations of less than ten acres, excepting commercial feed lots, are nonconforming uses in the district in which an existing operation is located, provided that any new building in which farm animals are kept shall be a distance of 100 feet or more from any other lot in any residential district.
(1) If the property currently has farm animals, it can continue to have farm animals under the nonconforming use ordinance.
(2) If the property is used only for crops, farm animals will not be allowed. The property is allowed to crop rotate and maintain crops as a nonconforming use.
(B) Limited sales of products produced may be conducted on the premises from a roadside stand, but the stand shall not exceed 12 feet in height or 500 square feet in floor area, and no portion of any stand shall be located or erected nearer than 40 feet from any street right-of-way.
(C) The city may require any farm operation to secure a conditional use permit to continue operation in the event the farming operations are so intensive as to constitute a feed lot or an industrial type use consisting of the compounding, processing, and packaging of products for wholesale or retail trade.
(D) Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to prevent the restoring to a safe condition any building or part thereof declared unsafe by the official charged with protecting the public safety, upon order of that official.
(Ord. 134/94, passed 3-24-94; Am. Ord. 483, passed 6-16-21) Penalty, see § 10.99