§ 154.076 SUPPLEMENTAL YARD REQUIREMENTS.

   (A)   When 40% or more of the frontage on the same side of the street is improved with buildings that have a front yard that is greater or less than the required front yard in the district, a building may project to the average front yard so established.

   (B)   (1)   Whenever a lot of record has an average width that is 20% or more less that the minimum average width required in the district in which it is located, the width of the side yards may be reduced to 10% of the average width of the lot.

      (2)   No side yard shall be less than three feet in width unless authorized by the Zoning Board of Appeals.

   (C)   The required front yard setbacks on corner lots shall be provided on both streets where a lot is located at the intersection of two or more streets.

   (D)   On double frontage lots, the required front yard shall be provided on each street.

   (E)   (1)   Temporary structures that are used in conjunction with construction work only may be permitted in any district during the period that the construction work is in progress.

      (2)   Such temporary structures shall be removed upon completion of the construction work.

      (3)   This temporary structure shall not be used as a dwelling.

   (F)   Exterior storage of goods, materials, or equipment shall not be permitted in any AG-1, AG-2,

SE-1, SE-2, or R Districts, or any other district except as explicitly authorized by this chapter.

(Ord. passed 5-16-2023)

AG-1 AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION DISTRICT

§ 154.090 GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

   (A)   (1)   The AG-1 District is established to conserve farmland and to encourage continued agricultural activities, thereby helping to ensure that sustainable agriculture will continue as a long term land use and a viable economic activity within the District. The AG-1 District is also established to preserve natural features and the rural landscape, while allowing low density residential development that minimizes its impact on agricultural land, farming operations, and sensitive environmental features. The preferred use in the AG-1 District is agriculture.

      (2)   The District is intended to permit a range of uses related to agriculture, to encourage preservation of large blocks of farmland, and to permanently protect from development the tracts of land which remain after permitted residential development has occurred.

   (B)   More specifically, the District is established to severely restrict non-farm development in predominantly agricultural areas in order to:

      (1)   Preserve productive agricultural land for continued food and fiber production;

      (2)   Protect productive farms from encroachment by incompatible non-farm uses;

      (3)   Maintain the existing agricultural processing and related service industries; and

      (4)   Preserve the maximum freedom of operation for those legitimate agricultural purposes permitted in this District.

(Ord. passed 5-16-2023)

§ 154.091 PERMITTED PRINCIPAL USES.

   The following are permitted uses in the AG-1 District:

   (A)   Agriculture;

   (B)   Dwelling, single-family detached (one per tax parcel);

   (C)   Home occupation, minor;

   (D)   Private stable;

   (E)   Roadside stand offering for sale only products grown on the premises;

   (F)   Transmission and distribution lines, and pipelines of public utility companies within existing public rights-of-way;

   (G)   Public parks and forest preserves;

   (H)   Uses customarily accessory to farm operations; and

   (I)   Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent.

(Ord. passed 5-16-2023)

§ 154.092 PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES.

   The following are permitted accessory uses in the AG-1 District:

   (A)   Small wind energy systems;

   (B)   Solar, private; and

   (C)   Other uses incidental to a permitted use.

(Ord. passed 5-16-2023)

§ 154.093 WHEN AUTHORIZED BY SPECIAL USE.

   The following are special uses in the AG-1 District when authorized:

   (A)   Airstrips/runways and heliports;

   (B)   Aircraft hangars/tie downs;

   (C)   Agribusiness;

   (D)   Battery energy storage system (BESS);

   (E)   Bulk storage of fuel and fertilizers;

   (F)   Cemetery;

   (G)   Churches;

   (H)   Commercial excavation of natural materials and improvements of a stream, lake river channel, and removal of dirt and/or topsoil, quarry, or borrow pits;

   (I)   Commercial solar energy facility;

   (J)   Commercial wind energy facility;

   (K)   Daycare home;

   (L)   Density increase for farm dwellings on a single 40-acre parcel when 40 acres per dwelling requirement is met on an entire farmstead;

   (M)   Government buildings;

   (N)   Grain elevator;

   (O)   Home occupation, major;

   (P)   Kennels;

   (Q)   Mobile home dwelling for a period of one year with the right of renewal for additional periods of one year for those instances where a unique and substantial hardship is found to be in existence for the protection of property or for the shelter of an immediate blood relative with a severe physical condition, with appropriate documentation;

   (R)   Large wind energy system;

   (S)   Recreational use, seasonal;

   (T)   Public stable;

   (U)   Recreational camps;

   (V)   Schools;

   (W)   Rural residential building lot; and

   (X)   Any other similar use deemed to be consistent by the Zoning Board of Appeals.

(Ord. passed 5-16-2023)

§ 154.094 HEIGHT REGULATIONS.

   No structure shall exceed two and one-half stories or 35 feet for the principle structure.

(Ord. passed 5-16-2023)

§ 154.095 LOT AREA AND YARD REQUIREMENTS.

   The following minimum requirements shall be met for primary structures. Accessory structures shall meet the requirements of § 154.039.

 

Lot Area	Lot Width	Front Yard Depth	Least Side Yard Width	Side Yard Sum	Rear Yard
40 acre	165 feet	40 feet	15 feet	30 feet	40 feet

 

(Ord. passed 5-16-2023)