§ 156.075 A-1 AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT.

   The A-1 Agricultural District is designed to accommodate and protect agricultural and related uses as well as other uses commonly found in agricultural or rural areas.

   (A)   Permitted uses.

      (1)   Agricultural uses;

      (2)   Agricultural produce sales including auction and wholesale establishments for produce;

      (3)   Single-family detached dwellings;

      (4)   Churches;

      (5)   Day care, family;

      (6)   Electric and telephone substations;

      (7)   Elementary and high schools;

      (8)   Grain elevators and storage;

      (9)   Nurseries, non-retail greenhouses;

      (10)   Parks and recreation areas, public and private;

      (11)   Public service areas;

      (12)   Riding stables; and

      (13)   Wildlife game preserves.

   (B)   Special uses. Following are permitted as special uses subject to the public hearing and other special use procedure requirements outlined in §§ 156.205 through 156.209:

      (1)   Airports and landing fields;

      (2)   Bed and breakfast inns;

      (3)   Boarding house;

      (4)   Cemeteries including mausoleums or crematories;

      (5)   Colleges, junior colleges, universities;

      (6)   Day care, commercial;

      (7)   Fairgrounds;

      (8)   Family care homes;

      (9)   Golf courses;

      (10)   Hospitals and sanitariums;

      (11)   Nursing and rest homes;

      (12)   Religious institutions other than churches;

      (13)   Sanitary landfills;

      (14)   Slaughter houses;

      (15)   Telephone, radio, television transmitters or radio stations; and

      (16)   Unrelated group family homes.

   (C)   Required lot area and width. All new buildings erected or structurally enlarged shall be on a lot of not less than one acre and a lot width at the building line of not less than 200 feet. This requirement may be varied for nonconforming lots of record as outlined in § 156.126.

   (D)   Required yard areas. Every building hereafter erected or structurally enlarged within the A-1 Agricultural District shall provide or maintain the following yard requirements.

      (1)   Front yard. Thirty feet.

      (2)   Side yard.

         (a)   No side yard of less than eight feet; and

         (b)   For the side street side of a corner lot, a minimum yard of not less than 30 feet.

      (3)   Rear yard. One hundred feet. Corner lots will not be considered to have rear yards, but only front and side yards.

   (E)   Building height. No limits are imposed on a building height within the A-1 Agricultural District.

   (F)   Floor area ratio. No building shall be erected or structurally enlarged to provide a floor area ratio exceeding twenty one-hundredths.

   (G)   Required off-street parking. Required off-street parking shall be as provided in §§ 156.185 through 156.192.

(2009 Code, § 40-5-1) (Ord. 15-08, passed 8-31-2015)