City of Westminster, MD Article IV A Agricultural Residential Zone

§ 164-18 General provisions.

The following regulations shall apply in all A Agricultural Residential Zones.

§ 164-19 Uses permitted.

No building, structure or land shall be used and no building or structure shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered, enlarged or maintained, except for one or more of the following uses:

A. Accessory uses and buildings customarily incidental to any permitted use in this section.

B. Agriculture, as defined in § 164-3, including commercial or noncommercial nurseries and greenhouses, provided that any greenhouse heating plant or any building or feeding pens in which farm animals are kept shall comply with the distance requirements specified in § 164-140.

C. Circuses, carnivals or similar transient enterprises, provided that such use shall not exceed 10 days at any one time and involves no permanent structure.

D. Dwellings, single-family detached.

E. Day-care facilities for not more than six children or elderly persons.

F. Farm tenant houses.

G. Game, wildlife and nature study preserves and reservations.

H. Recreation facilities and centers (public or private noncommercial), including country clubs, swimming pools, golf courses and summer camps.

I. Riding stables, subject to the distance requirements specified in § 164-140.

J. Utilities, pipelines, electric power and energy transmission and distribution lines, telephone and telegraph lines and railroad tracks, but not a railroad yard, except overhead electric power and energy transmission and distribution lines suspended from multilegged structures, aboveground pipelines and accessory structures.

§ 164-20 Special exceptions.

[Amended 10-12-1998 by Ord. No. 632]

The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions in accordance with the provisions of Article XXII:

A. Antique and arts and crafts shops.

B. Airparks, airports or landing fields, public or private.

C. Beauty parlors or barbershops.

D. Boarding- (lodging) or rooming houses.

E. Cemeteries, mausoleums, memorial gardens or places of worship.

[Amended 5-13-2019 by Ord. No. 910]

F. Dairy products or milk plants.

G. Eleemosynary and philanthropic institutions.

H. Funeral homes and mortuaries.

I. Home occupations.

J. Hospitals and nursing and care homes.

K. Libraries, museums and similar institutions of a noncommercial nature.

L. Medical and dental clinics.

M. Noncommercial research institutions.

N. Offices to conduct mail order and catalog-type operations where operated by a resident of the property, provided that no inventory or merchandise is kept on the premises for sale, except samples and the like, and provided that there are no more than two nonresident employees.

O. The professional office of a resident realtor, attorney, accountant, insurance agent or other similar professional office of the resident, provided that there are no more than two nonresident employees.

P. Public buildings, structures and properties of the cultural, educational, administrative and public-service type, including fire, ambulance or rescue service.

Q. Telecommunications facilities, subject to the requirements of § 164-139.1.

R. Recreational year-round campground or recreational establishments of a commercial nature.

S. Rifle, pistol or skeet-shooting ranges.

T. Roadside stands which do not operate in excess of six months per year for the sale of fresh fruits, vegetables and other farm produce in season.

U. Schools and colleges, including nursery schools or day-care facilities for up to eight children or elderly persons.

V. Theaters, outdoor.

W. Tourist homes (bed/breakfast).

§ 164-21 Dimensional requirements.

A. Net lot area. Each single-family detached dwelling hereafter erected, together with its accessory buildings, shall be located on a lot having an area of at least five acres.

B. Percentage of lot coverage. Not more than 25% of the net area of the lot may be covered by buildings, including accessory buildings.

C. Lot width and yard requirements.

(1) The following minimum requirements shall be observed:

Use	Lot Width at Building Line (feet)	Front Yard Depth (feet)	Side Yard Width (each) (feet)	Rear Yard Depth (feet)
Principal structures	100	40	20	50

(2) A corner lot shall have a minimum width of 125 feet, measured at the building line along each street front, and shall have two front yards.

(3) An accessory building or any enclosure, coop or run or any part thereof used for housing, shelter or sale of animals or fowl shall be located at least 50 feet from any building used for dwelling purposes and shall conform to the rear and side yard requirements set forth in Subsection C(1) above.

§ 164-22 Building height.

No principal structure shall exceed 2 1/2 stories or a height of 35 feet, except in the case of agricultural buildings, which shall have no height limitations.