(A) Intent and purpose. The purpose of the A-1 District is to maintain an environment where agricultural activities may be conducted and to limit or restrict those uses which would be in conflict or negatively impacted by such activities.
(B) Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted in the A-1 District. In addition to the uses permitted in this district, certain other uses may be conditionally allowed per division (C) below. Other uses not listed, which are determined by the Enforcement Officer to be identical or similar to one or more of the permitted uses, may be permitted as well. When an unlisted use is proposed and appears to meet the intent of this district, but its potential impact is uncertain, then such use shall be considered a special use:
(1) Accessory uses (see § 154.056);
(2) Agricultural uses including crop and tree farming, gardening, nursery operations, dairy farming, egg production, stock raising, domestic animals and poultry breeding and raising (not including raising of fur bearing animals or animal hospitals), and forestry operations together with the operation of vehicles and machinery incidental to agricultural uses;
(3) Clinic, veterinary (large or small animals);
(4) Communication towers, less than 100 feet in height;
(5) Community residences, small, where the community residence is more than 1,000 feet from any existing community residence;
(6) Dwellings, detached one-family;
(7) Dwellings, modular;
(8) Golf courses (not including miniature golf courses), including ancillary uses such as club houses, restaurants, and practice driving ranges, provided that lighting of such ancillary driving ranges shall be subject to issuance of special use permit (see §§ 154.125 through 154.128);
(9) Home occupations (see § 154.059);
(10) Parks, forest preserves, and recreational areas that are public or private not-for-profit, including fairgrounds;
(11) Places of worship;
(12) Public utility facilities as defined in the state act, entitled “An Act Concerning Public Utilities”;
(13) Roadside stands, temporary or movable, for display and sale of agricultural produce grown on the property, provided that any temporary or movable structure shall be set back at least 24 feet from the edge of the roadway and outside the roadway right-of-way; and
(14) Stables, private.
(1) Agricultural implement and machinery sales and service;
(2) Agricultural produce sale facilities (wholesale or retail) including, but not necessarily limited to, fruits, vegetables, flowers, plants, and similar produce;
(3) Airport, commercial;
(4) Airport, restricted landing area;
(5) Bed and breakfast inn;
(6) Blacksmith or welding shop;
(7) Cemeteries, including crematories and mausoleums in conjunction therewith, provided that crematories shall not be located closer than 500 feet to the lot line of any existing dwelling or the boundary of any dwelling district;
(8) Club or lodge, private social, political or fraternal;
(9) Commercial feeding of poultry or livestock, including bovine, lamb, sheep, porcine, and other livestock being raised for sale, provided that no feeding facilities shall be located closer than 500 feet to the lot line of any existing dwelling or the boundary of any dwelling district;
(10) Commercial grain elevators and storage facilities, provided that no elevator and storage facilities shall be located closer than 500 feet to the lot line of any existing dwelling or the boundary of any dwelling district;
(11) Communication towers, greater than 100 feet in height;
(12) Community residences, large;
(13) Community residences, small, where the community residence is 1,000 feet or less from any existing community residence;
(14) Dwellings, manufactured home;
(15) Earth materials, extraction and processing, provided that:
(a) No open pit or shaft shall be less than 300 feet from any public road, nor less than 500 feet from the lot line of any existing dwelling or the boundary of any dwelling district;
(b) All buildings or structures for the screening, crushing, washing, mixing, or storage shall not be located not less than 1,000 feet from the lot line of the boundary of any dwelling district;
(c) The borders of the entire property shall be fenced with a security fence at least six feet in height;
(d) A plan of development for the reclamation of the land is provided as part of the application for a special use permit; and
(e) The plan of development shall be accompanied by a written agreement between the owner or owner’s agent and the village and a performance bond in an amount equal to the cost of the reclamation of the land as set forth in the development plan and approved by the village.
(16) Fertilizer sales, including bulk storage and mixing, provided that no bulk storage or mixing facility shall be located closer than 500 feet to the lot line of any existing dwelling or the boundary of any dwelling district;
(17) Flour, feed, and grain milling and storage facilities, provided that no storage or processing facility shall be located closer than 500 feet to the lot line of any existing dwelling or the boundary of any dwelling district;
(18) Fur-bearing animal farms;
(19) Greenhouses, nurseries, and landscaping supply operations, wholesale or retail;
(20) Heliports;
(21) Kennels;
(22) Landscape waste composting operations, provided that no composting operations shall be located closer than 2,000 feet to the lot line of the boundary of any dwelling district;
(23) Livestock depots and sales yards, provided that no depot or sales yard shall be located closer than 2,000 feet to the lot line of any existing dwelling or the boundary of any dwelling district;
(24) Milk depots;
(25) Penal and correctional facilities;
(26) Private, for-profit, recreational areas and camps;
(27) Publically-owned or publically regulated buildings and facilities, such as, water filtration plants, electric substations, pumping stations, sewage treatment plants, maintenance facilities, public safety training areas, and similar uses, but not including auditoriums, community centers, gymnasiums, or other places of public assembly;
(28) Railroad rights-of-way and trackage, but not including classification yards, terminal facilities, maintenance facilities, or similar facilities;
(29) Recycling plants, provided that no resource recovery operations shall be located closer than 500 feet to the lot line of any existing dwelling or the boundary of any dwelling district;
(30) Sanitary landfills, subject also to state approval and provided that no such landfill shall be located closer than 2,000 feet to the boundary of any dwelling district;
(31) Shooting ranges, outdoor, provided that no portion of an outdoor shooting range shall be located closer than 2,000 feet to any habitable or occupiable building or nonagricultural district other than that of the dwelling of an on-site owner or operator of the shooting range;
(32) Stables, professional and public;
(33) Truck parking areas, the principal purpose of which is ancillary to the loading and shipping of farm produce, livestock, poultry, fertilizer, animal feed, and similar agriculturally related products and provided that no such parking area shall be located closer than 500 feet to the lot line of any existing dwelling or the boundary of any dwelling district; and
(34) One chair beauty or barber shop.
(D) Density and dimensional regulations.
(1) Minimum lot size.
(a) One-family detached and manufactured homes.
1. Lot area: five acres; and
2. Lot width: 200 feet.
(b) Other permitted uses.
1. Lot area: five acres; and
2. Lot width: 200 feet.
(c) Special uses.
1. Lot area: five acres; and
2. Lot width: 200 feet.
(2) Minimum building setbacks.
(a) One-family detached and manufactured home.
1. Right-of-way setback: 50 feet; and
2. Property line setback: 25 feet.
(b) Other permitted and special uses. The minimum setback requirements for all other principal buildings and structures shall be the same as listed in division (D)(2)(a) above, except as otherwise specified in the listing of permitted and special uses (see divisions (B) and (C) above).
(3) Building height limitations. The building height limitations are 35 feet or three stories.
(Ord. 834, passed 2-1-2001)