(A) Permitted uses. Within the Agricultural District the following uses are permitted:
(1) The growing, harvesting, and storing of crops, including legume, hay, grain, fruit, and truck or vegetable crops, floriculture, horticulture, mushroom growing, nurseries, orchards, forestry, and greenhouses;
(2) Farm dwellings occupied by farm owners, operators, tenants, or seasonal or year-round hired farm workers;
(3) Farm buildings used for growing, harvesting, and preparing crop products for market or for use on the farm, or for storing and protecting farm machinery and equipment from the elements;
(4) One-family dwellings; provided that the minimum lot area for each dwelling unit is five acres; § 152.045(B)(5) and (B)(6) shall apply; and
(5) The keeping, raising, or feeding of beef cattle, sheep, goats, horses, ponies, mules, donkeys, and/or poultry.
(B) Regulations and standards.
(1) Minimum lot size. Five acres.
(2) Required yards and open space. The following setback line regulations and standards shall apply to all structures, except as are permitted in yards:
(a) Front yards.
1. Where the lots abut a major street, as designated on the zoning map, the minimum setback shall be 150 feet from the centerline of such right-of-way, but not less than 60 feet from the right-of-way line; and
2. Where the lot abuts a collector or a minor street, as designated on the zoning map, the minimum setback line shall be 100 feet as measured from the centerline of such right-of-way, but not less than 60 feet from the right-of-way line.
(b) Side yard. Minimum 30 feet, and for each additional story above the first two stories, add ten feet.
(c) Rear yard. Minimum 100 feet.
(d) Floodwater restrictions. Notwithstanding the above minimum yard requirements, no building or structure shall be placed closer than 50 feet to the centerline of Snag Creek, unless the applicant can show that closer placement will not restrict or impede the passage of floodwater.
(e) Livestock. Structures used for the housing of livestock or poultry shall not be located closer than 125 feet to any adjoining property line designated on the zoning map as a Residential District.
(C) Maximum number of animals on property.
(1) The maximum number of animals shall not exceed:
(a) Livestock: one animal per acre of fenced pasture; and
(b) Poultry: four animals per acre of fenced pasture.
(2) At no point on the property line of the property used for the keeping, raising, or feeding of livestock or poultry shall any noise, smoke and particulate matter, vibrations, toxic or noxious matter, odors, vapors, or gases of such use be objectionable to the occupant of any adjacent property.
(1977 Code, § 5-7) (Ord. passed 9-12-1966; Ord. passed 2-10-1992)