(A) Purpose. The Agricultural Open-Interim District is designed to promote orderly, timely, economical growth and to recognize current land use conditions such as it being agriculturally used or being undeveloped. It is the intent of this district that agricultural land be held in that use for as long as is practical and reasonable prior to any desire for development. AO-I is suitable for areas where development is premature because of the lack of utilities, capacity or service.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) Farming, ranching, related activities and accessory uses including one single-family dwelling, plus any housing for employees working on the premises;
(2) Barns or other structures for the housing of permitted livestock or other animals typically found in an agricultural setting; and
(C) Conditional uses.
(1) A mobile home on an unsubdivided tract of five acres (net) or more;
(2) Home occupations where the owner/tenant must reside therein; (Home occupations must meet the regulations governing such. See § 156.072(A) of this chapter.)
(3) Broadcast towers for radio, television, microwave and/or other telecommunications;
(4) Outdoor commercial recreations;
(5) Extraction activities that must include, but not be limited to, providing details on its proposed extraction activities, its previous extraction locations with contact data to those entities, its extraction dates and times and the like;
(6) Landing strips that may be permitted pending undeveloped properties in its flight patterns (take-off and landing); however, such landing strips may induce the public hearing process to consider its transitioned termination based on changes to actual development in its flight pattern path;
(7) Private facilities for the raising of animals including, but not limited to, dog kennels; such facilities must comply with any separation requirements found in any prevailing or forthcoming animal control regulations established by the local and/or state legislation;
(8) Amusement parks, circus or carnival grounds or (revival) tents or other temporary structures used for temporary purposes;
(9) Facilities for railroads or those utilities holding a franchise under the city;
(10) Plant and landscape nurseries; such may have a temporary period of unpaved off-street parking, but such period should not be longer than one year; after this one-year tenure, off-street parking shall be paved;
(11) Temporary institutional uses;
(12) Cemeteries; such land uses must comply with the prevailing state codes on such land uses. As of this writing, refer to the state’s Banking Code;
(13) Fruit and/or vegetable sales which the majority are grown on the premises. A business permit must be acquired by the proprietor in accordance to this chapter; and
(14) Other uses which, as determined by the Planning Director and, if need be, after consultation with the City Manager, are not contrary to the purposes established for the AO-I District, which may include a veterinary service.
(D) Prohibited uses.
(1) Unless otherwise grandfathered, any building erected or land used for other than one or more of the preceding specified uses as approved thereby.
(2) Any new use of property that does not meet the required minimum lot size, including lot area requirements, or exceeds the maximum height requirements.
(E) Area requirements.
(1) Minimum lot area for inner or corner lot: 43,560 square feet;
(2) Minimum inner or corner lot frontage to a public or private street: 100 feet;
(3) Minimum lot depth: 200 feet;
(4) Minimum front yard building setback to primary building: 40 feet;
(5) Minimum rear yard building setback: ten feet or off of wider easement;
(6) Minimum width of side yard building setback:
(a) Inner lot: six feet; and
(b) Corner lot: ten feet.
(7) Minimum distance from the public right-of-way (property line) to the entrance of a garage or enclosed carport shall be 18 feet;
(8) Maximum height of structures: 35 feet; however, where a structure may exceed the 35-foot maximum, said structure shall be set back one additional foot for each foot above 35 feet;
(9) Minimum number of off-street parking spaces shall be two for the single-family dwelling; for all other uses, refer to any prevailing off-street parking regulations; and
(10) See § 156.087 of this chapter for any applicable clarification, modification and/or exception.
(Ord. 2016-07, passed 8-9-2016)