§ 156.042 AGRICULTURAL OPEN PERMANENT SPACE.

   (A)   Purpose. The Permanent Open Space District is to be used for the following purposes:

      (1)   To protect those areas that are unsuitable for development because of physical terrain issues or potential health or safety hazards such as being susceptible to prompt flooding conditions;

      (2)   To provide a permanent greenbelt or open space buffer around uses that might otherwise be objectionable or pose environmental or health hazards; and

      (3)   To protect and preserve natural habitats of wildlife and/or plant life that are deemed critical by the city.

   (B)   Permitted uses.

      (1)   Farming, ranching, related activities and accessory uses including the owner’s single-family dwelling, plus any housing for employees working on the premises; single-family dwellings may be required to provide a flood elevation certificate as a condition of permit approval; and

      (2)   Signs permitted in this land use classification. See Ch. 153 of this code of ordinances.

   (C)   Conditional uses.

      (1)   A mobile home on an un-subdivided tract of five acres or more. An elevation certificate may be imposed as a part of the approval process;

      (2)   Home occupations; (See § 156.072(A) of this chapter on related home occupation regulations.)

      (3)   Broadcast towers for radio, television, microwave and/or other telecommunication services;

      (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 un-developed 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 un-paved 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)   Fruit, vegetable and the like sales which the majority are predominantly grown on the premises. A business permit is required prior to activation of such sales; and

      (13)   Other uses which, as determined by the city, are not contrary to the purposes established for this district including 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; and

      (2)   Any new use of property that does not conform with the required area requirements for this use district; or exceeds the maximum height requirement.

   (E)   Area requirements.

      (1)   Minimum inner or corner lot area: 43,560 square feet (net);

      (2)   Minimum inner or corner lot frontage on a public or private street: 100 feet;

      (3)   Minimum lot depth: 200 feet;

      (4)   Minimum front building setback to primary home: 40 feet;

      (5)   Minimum rear building setback: ten feet or off from wider easement;

      (6)   Minimum width of side yard building setback:

         (a)   Inner lot: six feet or off from wider easement; and

         (b)   Corner lot: ten feet or off from wider easement.

      (7)   Minimum distance from the public right-of-way (property line) to the entrance to a garage or enclosed carport: 18 feet;

      (8)   Maximum height of structure: 35 feet; however, where a structure exceeds the 35-foot height maximum, it shall be set back one additional foot for each foot over 35 feet; and

      (9)   Minimum number of paved off-street parking spaces:

         (a)   One single-family dwelling: two; and

         (b)   All other uses, please refer to §§ 156.100 through 156.109 of this chapter.

      (10)   See § 156.087 of this chapter for any further clarification, modification and/or exception.

(Ord. 2016-07, passed 8-9-2016)