§ 106-251. A agricultural districts.
The following regulations shall apply to all agricultural districts (A districts):
(1)
Uses permitted.
a.
Agriculture, including:
1.
Farming, crop cultivating.
2.
Farming, raising of livestock and poultry.
b.
Aviaries.
c.
Bed and breakfast establishments, subject to the following requirements:
1.
Off-street parking equal to two spaces for the operator and one space per guestroom shall be provided.
2.
Guest parking shall not be in a setback and shall not be on the driveway that also serves the garage for the operator.
3.
Guest parking areas shall not be closer than five feet to the side or rear property line.
4.
Not more than one nonilluminated sign measuring four square feet per face may be displayed.
5.
Guests shall stay no more than 14 consecutive nights.
d.
Boarding or keeping of horses or ponies with or without offering riding or riding instruction.
e.
Dwellings, single-family.
f.
Fairgrounds.
g.
Kennels, animal hospitals or clinics. No treatment room or pens for large animals and no kennel shall be located closer than 200 feet to any property unless maintained within a completely enclosed soundproof building. All facilities shall be operated in such a way as to produce no objectionable odors at or beyond the lot line.
h.
Mobile home as an accessory use to agriculture, one mobile home occupied as a permanent residence.
i.
Nurseries and orchards.
j.
Roadside stands for sale of only those farm products produced upon the premises on which the stand is located.
k.
Uses permitted in section 106-161.
l.
Utilities, to include substations, booster stations, telephone exchange stations, gas pressure control stations and water storage facilities.
(2)
Special uses. The following uses are permitted as special uses when authorized by the city council after a public hearing and recommendation by the plan commission:
a.
Agriculturally related business such as, but not limited to, anhydrous ammonia facilities, grain elevators, grain storage, and grain drying.
b.
Airports, landing fields and heliports.
c.
Auction houses, subject to review in terms of the following criteria:
1.
Noise.
2.
Setback.
3.
Parking.
4.
Signs.
5.
Buffering and landscaping.
d.
Camping, including travel trailers, motor homes, and tents.
e.
Camps.
f.
Carnivals and circuses.
1.
Such use shall provide one-half of the lot or two acres, whichever is greater, for customer parking, and gravel crushed stone or other improved access roads.
2.
A carnival or circus shall not operate more than 15 consecutive days.
3.
A carnival or circus shall not be located closer than 1,000 feet to any dwelling, except that of the owner or lessor of the site.
g.
Child care centers.
h.
Crematoriums.
i.
Educational facilities: public, parochial, and private colleges, universities, and K-12 boarding schools, and uses accessory and incidental thereto.
j.
Gun clubs, which shall be located at least 1,000 feet from any dwelling other than that of the owner or lessor of the site.
k.
Hospitals and nursing homes.
l.
Hotels as a principal building or structure within a recreational park.
m.
Landscape contractors with no retail sales.
n.
Mineral extraction facilities, including coal, sand, gravel, stone or other materials, by open pit or shaft methods.
1.
Such facility may include mining equipment such as conveyors, crushers, washers, shovels, drag lines, wheels, dredges, drill rigs and similar equipment. It does not include asphalt plants, ready-mix concrete plants and similar facilities.
2.
No extraction operation shall be carried out within 800 linear feet of any existing residential subdivision containing five or more dwellings of a non-farm nature or containing ten or more residential lots, or within 300 feet of any existing structure or building other than those which may be owned by the applicant for the permit unless written permission is obtained from the owner of such structures or buildings. The stockpiling of overburden is permitted within this buffer strip.
3.
All excavations and stockpiles shall be treated as structures in regard to setback from property lines as defined in subsection (4) of this section.
4.
Trucks entering and leaving the site must meet the weight requirements of affected roads.
5.
If haulage roads related to the mining development intersect with a township, county or state roadway or any other public roadway, the operator shall be responsible for obtaining a permit from the regulating agency of that particular road and for safe traffic control as the board may require.
6.
Where deemed reasonably necessary by the city, protective fencing may be required where a mineral extraction facility is in close proximity to a residential area from which children might be attracted, particularly if the mineral extraction facility contains areas of deep water.
o.
Municipal storage facilities.
p.
Radio, television and communication facilities, which may include studios, transmitting equipment and signal booster facilities.
q.
Recreational vehicle parks, subject to the following:
1.
Overall density shall not exceed 15 spaces per acre.
2.
No recreational vehicle shall be closer than ten feet to any interior drive or adjacent recreational vehicle or building except where mutually consented to by all parties.
3.
Where a recreational vehicle park abuts or adjoins any other district except an industrial district, a landscape buffer strip not less than 20 feet in depth with at least six-foot-tall screen planting shall be provided.
4.
Noise generated by activity within the park shall not exceed the ambient noise level at the property lines.
5.
The park shall be used by patrons having other residences.
r.
Retail sales: nurseries, including lawn and garden equipment.
s.
Sanitary landfills, subject to approval by the state environmental protection agency.
t.
Sawmills.
(3)
Required lot area. The required minimum lot area for agricultural districts shall be five acres, except as follows:
a.
Raising of livestock, poultry, etc., shall require a minimum of ten acres.
b.
Boarding of horses for a fee, offering riding instruction or providing horses for hire shall require a minimum lot of ten acres.
(4)
Yards.
a.
Front yard. There shall be provided on every lot a front yard not less than 50 feet in depth.
b.
Side yard. There shall be provided on every lot side yards not less than the following:
1.
Adjacent to the main building: 30 feet.
2.
Adjacent to the accessory building: 15 feet.
c.
Rear yard. There shall be provided on every lot rear yards not less than the following:
1.
Adjacent to the main building: 25 feet.
2.
Adjacent to the accessory building: 15 feet.
(5)
Off-street parking. Adequate off-street parking in accordance with the provisions of article VIII, division 2 of this chapter shall be provided.
(Code 1996, §§ 11-7-1—11-7-6)
Cross reference
Animals, ch. 14.