The following regulations should apply in the A-1 Agricultural District:
(A) Agriculture and agricultural buildings, provided no livestock is housed closer than 660 feet from any lot in any “R” district.
(B) Any buildings or structures occupied by or used for churches, Sunday schools, parish homes, public or parochial schools, public libraries, museums and similar public cultural uses, located not less than 40 feet from any other side lot line in any “R” district.
(C) Open air recreational uses such as parks and playgrounds.
(D) Essential services and public service buildings or properties, except uses such as storage yards, warehouses, garages or other uses customarily conducted as gainful business, provided any building is located not less than 40 feet from any “R” district.
(E) Cemeteries.
(F) Existing railroad rights-of-way, not including switching, storage, freight yards or sidings.
(G) Home occupations, as defined in § 156.004.
(H) Temporary buildings and uses for construction purposes for a period not to exceed one year.
(I) Sale of nursery and greenhouse products where production or growth of products takes place on the premises.
(J) Country clubs, golf courses, swimming clubs and similar recreational uses, provided any principal or accessory building in connection therewith should be located not less than 200 feet from any other lot in any “R” district.
(K) Farm dwellings and single-family non-farm dwellings.
(L) Billboards and sign boards subject to state regulations.
(1) Sanitary landfills, in accordance with other applicable requirements and regulations, provided no landfill should be operated within 1,320 feet of any “R” district.
(2) Mining, loading of coal, clay, and or gravel, including equipment, buildings or structures for washing, crushing, screening, mixing or storage subject to the following conditions and restrictions:
(a) No open pit or shaft should be located less than 500 feet from any residence.
(b) No open pit or shaft should be located less than 1,320 feet from any “R” district.
(c) All buildings or structures for washing, crushing, screening, mixing or storage should be located not less than 500 feet from any residence and 1,320 feet from any “R” district.
(d) The operator of an open pit mine in complying with “The Open Cut Land Reclamation Act,” approved August 10, 1961, as amended, should notify the Planning Commission at the time the application for permit is made to the Illinois Department of Conservation and should furnish for review and approval by the Commission a plan for restoration of the land as required by the Act before submission of the plan to the Department of Conservation. The plan should detail briefly the steps for restoration of land to productive uses and should include specific dates for the completion of various steps of the restoration.
(e) The operator of an open pit mine should not be required to obtain a special use permit for any tract or tracts of land estimated to be affected by open cut mining for which a permit has been issued by the Department of Conservation, pursuant to the provisions of “The Open Cut Land Reclamation Act.” The tract or tracts of land should be considered an existing special use as set forth in § 156.009, to which the special use procedure is inapplicable.
(f) Oil wells and the storage of crude oil, provided that no such operation should be conducted within 200 feet of any residence and 500 feet of any lot in an “R” district.
(N) Accessory use or building, as defined in § 156.004, and as regulated by § 156.010, including buildings and structures accessory to agricultural uses including roadside stands selling produce grown on the premises, provided the stands are located not less than 50 feet from a street or highway right-of-way.
(O) Water treatment plant.
('74 Code, Appendix A, § 15) (Am. Ord. 1472, passed 11-20-12) Penalty, see § 156.999