(a) Other than those feedlots in existence on the date of the passage of this Zoning Code (Ordinance 1049, passed February 26, 1985), there shall be no feedlots allowed within the corporate limits of the City. The corporate limits, as used herein, do not include any of the unincorporated two-mile area beyond the corporate boundaries.
(b) After adoption by the City of this Zoning Code, the City shall give public notice to existing feedlot owners of the need to certify to the City the capacity and location of their existing feedlots. The feedlot owner will then have thirty days to furnish such information to the City.
(c) Feedlots shall be classified by size. Feedlot classification shall be determined on a density basis using a density of 300 square feet per head for beef, forty square feet per head for sheep and swine and twenty square feet per head for poultry and fowl.
Class Beef/Dairy Cattle Swine Sheep Poultry
A 10-200 10-200 20-200 20-200
B 201-1,500 201-2,000 201-5,000 201-20,000
C 1,501-3,000 2,001-3,000 5,001-7,000 20,001-25,000
D 3,001-5,000 3,001-5,000 7,001-9,000 25,001-30,000
E 5,001 or more 5,001 or more 9,001 or more 30,001 or more
(d) Further expansion of an existing feedlot or construction of a new feedlot shall require an application for a special permit to expand or construct to the classification desired by the applicant.
(e) The additional feedlot capacity approved by special permit may be discontinued and started again, depending on the conditions attached to the special permit issued. Special permits for feedlots shall be issued for a period not to exceed three years. A request for review and consideration of a special permit shall be submitted to the Planning Commission not later than ninety days prior to the expiration of the existing special permit for a feedlot, with continuance to be reviewed and consideration to include:
(1) No new residences have been constructed within one-quarter mile.
(2) No parks or other general public use facilities were constructed within one-quarter mile.
(f) If construction has occurred, it shall be necessary to file an application for a special permit as provided in Chapter 1246.
(g) The following standards shall apply to all feedlots constructed after the effective date of this Zoning Code (Ordinance 1049, passed February 26, 1985). Such standards shall also apply to feedlots approved by special permit unless otherwise altered by such approval.
(1) Feedlots shall be set back from any street or highway right of way not less than fifty feet and 150 feet from any intersection of two streets or roads.
(2) A windbreak, hedge or planting of trees shall be maintained in the fifty-foot setback area along such streets and highways. This landscaping shall be used to visually screen feedlot operations from public view.
(3) Prior to issuance of a building permit, the applicant shall show evidence that the proposed operation will satisfy the current health standards applied to feedlots by the State Department of Environmental Control.
(Ord. 1049. Passed 2-26-85.)