6-7-3: USE REGULATIONS:

Identified on table 7.A of this section are those land uses or activities that may be permitted within the Agricultural Zone District, subject to the provisions of this title and applicable General Plan policies. Table 7.A of this section also indicates the development procedure and the approval type by which each listed land use or activity may be permitted in an Agricultural Zone District.

TABLE 7.A
USES PERMITTED WITHIN THE AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT

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Legend:

P = Permitted subject to consistency assessment

C = Permitted subject to approval of a conditional use permit application

X = Not permitted in this district

Agriculture Uses	A
Agricultural:
Agricultural chemical storage and repackaging	C
Agricultural services, when incidental and secondary to the primary use of the premises for agriculture	P
Agricultural trucking facilities	C
Alcohol distillery	C
Animal products processing, including meat packing, canning and shipping when the livestock is produced or grown by the owner of the processing facility on the premises or on land leased, rented or owned by the owner of the processing facility and within a reasonable distance of the facility	C
Beef cattle or livestock grazing	P
Beekeeping	P
Berry crops	P
Biomass energy conversion	C
Birds, including show or racing pigeons and other small fowl	P
Brewery	C
Cannabis cultivation, indoor (licenses for medical or adult-use, specialty cottage, specialty, small, medium, nurseries, and processors)	X
Cannabis cultivation, outdoor (licenses for medical or adult-use, specialty cottage, specialty, small, medium, nurseries, and processors)	X
Cannabis distributors and distributor transport only (license types 11 and 13)	X
Cannabis manufacturer (medical or adult-use, license type 6, type 7, type N-infusions, and type P-packaging and labeling only)	X
Cannabis microbusiness (license type 12)	X
Cannabis testing laboratory (license type 8)	X
Christmas trees	P
Cold storage facility for agricultural products	P
Contract harvesting	P
Cotton gin	C
Creamery	C
Dairy	X
Dairy stock grazing	X
Farm machinery and equipment repair	P
Field crops, dryland	P
Field crops, irrigated	P
Fish and frog farms	P
Flour mill	C
Flowers and horticulture specialties, wholesale only	P
Fruit, vegetable and plant products processing, including freezing, packing, preserving and shipping	P
Glucose processing	C
Grain elevator or storage	C
Hogs, hog farm or ranch	X
Honey extraction	P
Horses, donkeys, llamas or mules	P
Livestock feedlot or stock auction or sales yard for hoofed animals	X
Oil or mineral extraction	P
Poultry, including hatching, breeding, butchering, processing or shipping of chickens, ostriches, emus, turkeys or other fowl or poultry, including eggs	X
Rabbits or fur bearing animals	P
Row crops	P
Saw or planing mill	C
Sheep or goats farm	X
Tasting room, when accessory to an existing winery or brewery	P
Winery or brewery	C
Wool pulling and scouring	C
Commercial:
Cannabis event organizers and temporary cannabis events (license type 14)	X
Cannabis retail sales/dispensary (license type 10)	X
Cannabis retail sales, non-storefront (license type 9)	X
Fireworks stand, subject to the provisions of section 6-12-17 of this title	P
Fruit stand, permanent	P
Fruit stand, temporary, pursuant to this chapter	P
Medical marijuana dispensaries	X
Veterinary, large animal	P
Educational institutions and schools:
College or university	C
Elementary school	C
Junior high school	C
Preschool	C
Senior high school	C
Institutional:
Cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, mortuary or crematory	C
Charitable or public service organization	C
Church	C
Fire or police station	P
Government office or building	P
Public agency or public utility buildings and facilities	P
Rehabilitation facilities	C
Water treatment plant, unless project otherwise entails a public hearing, then permitted	C
Zoo	C
Miscellaneous:
Accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a conditionally permitted use	C
Accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a permitted use	P
Daycare home, large family, pursuant to this title	C
Daycare home, small family	P
Drainage sump	C
Drainage sump, if proposed and approved as part of a tentative subdivision or tentative parcel map	P
Flood control facilities	P
Hunting or fishing club, not involving structures	C
Water storage or groundwater recharge facilities	P
Wild animal keeping	C
Wildlife or nature preserve (private)	C
Recreation, entertainment and tourist facilities:
Equestrian establishment	C
Golf course/driving range	C
Guest ranch, when accessory to a commercial ranching operation	C
Lakes, private, for recreational skiing or boating	C
Park or playground, unless project requires a public hearing, then permitted	C
Racetrack or test track, automobile, bicycle, horse or motorcycle	C
Recreational vehicle park	C
Shooting range or gun club, simulated war games, or similar activities, outdoor only	C
Trade fairs and exhibitions, temporary (14 day minimum), excluding flea markets and swap meets (subject to provision of section 6-2-11 of this title)	P
Residential:
Accessory dwelling unit (per section 6-12-23 of this title)	P
Emergency shelters	X
Farm labor housing for contract labor	C
Farm labor housing for on site employees	C
Residential accessory structures	P
Residential facilities	C
Single-family dwelling, occupied by the owner or full time on site employee	P
Supportive housing	P
Transitional housing	P
Resource extraction and energy development:
Coal fired cogeneration facility or stream generators, primarily intended for production of oil or gas	C
Cogeneration facility or steam generators, primarily intended for steam production used for production of oil or gas, excluding coal fired	C
Concrete or asphalt batch plant, temporary	C
Electrical power generating plant	C
Explosives storage, permanent	C
Explosives storage, temporary	C
Mineral exploration	P
Mining and mineral extraction pursuant to the provisions of this title	P
Oil or gas exploration and production pursuant to the provisions of this title	P
Rock, gravel, sand or soils, crushing, processing or distribution, when accessory to an approved mining operation	C
Solar energy electrical generators with a rated capacity of no greater than 5 kilowatts for on site consumption of the electricity	P
Solar energy for electrical generators, commercial or domestic, exceeding 5 kilowatts capacity	C
Wind driven electrical generators for consumption of electricity	C
Transportation facilities:
Airport, private (if not within an approved airport plan)	C
Airport, public (if not within an approved airport plan)	C
Heliport (if not within an approved airport plan)	C
Rail, rail freight classification or switching yard, and rail spurs	C
Utility and communication facilities:
Radio, television or commercial communications transmitter, receiver or translator, except as specified in this title	P
Transmission lines and supporting towers, poles, microwave towers and underground facilities for gas, water, electricity, telephone or telegraph service owned and operated by a public utility company or other company under the jurisdiction of the California Public Utilities Commission pursuant to this title	C
Utility substation	P
Waste facilities:
Hazardous waste disposal facility, unless project otherwise entails a public hearing, then permitted	C
Nonhazardous oil production and/or oily waste disposal facility, unless project otherwise entails a public hearing, then permitted	C
Sanitary landfill, unless project otherwise entails a public hearing, then permitted	C
Septage disposal site, unless project otherwise entails a public hearing, then permitted	C
Sewage sludge composting, unless project otherwise entails a public hearing, then permitted	C
Sewage treatment plant, unless project otherwise entails a public hearing, then permitted	C
Transfer station, large and small volume, unless project otherwise entails a public hearing, then permitted	C
Waste to energy facility, unless project otherwise entails a public hearing, then permitted	C
Other uses similar to, and no more objectionable than, the uses identified above, shall be reviewed per the process required by the similar use, as determined by the Planning Commission

 

(Ord. 831-18, 3-20-2018)