The Agricultural District is intended to accommodate
farming, forestry, livestock maintenance and other related activities.
Such uses are an essential part of the rural economy of the Town and
the agrarian character of portions of the community. It is comprised
of those areas primarily dedicated to farming and agricultural uses
and is to be conserved as a valuable part of the rural fabric of those
portions of the Town. These activities shall not be compromised by
development and shall be enhanced by the protection offered herein.
No buildings, structures or lands within the
Agricultural District shall be constructed, erected or used for other
than one of the following specified purposes:
A.
Agriculture, as defined.
B.
Publicly operated parks, playgrounds and recreation
facilities.
C.
Greenhouse and plant nurseries.
D.
Horse riding and boarding stables.
E.
Kennels, catteries.
F.
Public and semipublic uses, such as public schools,
churches.
G.
Cemeteries.
H.
Single-family residences built on land upon which farming has not
occurred for a period of five consecutive years and having acreage
of not less than three acres.
[Added 11-16-2016 by L.L.
No. 5-2016]
[Amended 5-5-2010 by L.L. No. 2-2010]
The following uses may be permitted upon obtaining
a special use permit:
A.
Airports and aircraft landing strips, excluding commercial
airports.
B.
Agricultural enterprises, including sawmills, planing
mills, dairies, fruit packing plants, wineries, equestrian centers
and similar uses that primarily utilize products and resources from
the immediately surrounding agricultural area or provide essential
agricultural services.
C.
Public utilities and public service uses, and buildings,
pumping, compressing, booster, relay and regulating stations, facilities
and transmission lines, transmission and receiving towers and telecommunications
facilities, subject to any other regulation of this chapter, railroads
and related facilities, purification and treatment plants, and fire
and rescue facilities.
D.
Nonprofit organizations consisting of hunting, fishing,
farming, conservation and other nonprofit organizations devoted either
to farming or use of land in its natural state, provided there shall
be no restaurants, bars or other buildings erected thereon, other
than organization headquarters having 1,000 square feet or less.
E.
Veterinary hospitals, offices or clinics.
F.
Animal waste treatment systems, subject to approval
of a site plan as required by this chapter, and compliance with all
local, state and federal regulations.
Any of the following uses may be permitted in
the Agricultural (AG) District as accessory and clearly subordinate
to the principal agricultural use:
A.
Uses and structures customarily incidental to the
principal permitted use.
B.
Farmhouse.
C.
Extended family units.
D.
Farm tenant structures (either conventional construction
or mobile home) limited to the use of persons employed on the farm,
provided that any such structure shall be removed if not used for
farm labor housing.
E.
Subdivision of land for the immediate family of farmers
of up to four residential lots.
F.
Agricultural barns, silos, sheds, buildings and related
accessory agricultural structures.
G.
Wayside stand of up to 500 square feet and set back
at least 25 feet from the road right-of-way, for the sale of farm
products produced on the premises.
[Amended 5-5-2010 by L.L. No. 2-2010]
Dimensional requirements are established as
follows:
|
Dimension
|
Requirement
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Lot area — lot area for farmhouses and
extended family units
|
1 acre
| |
|
Lot area — lot area for farm
|
10 acres
| |
|
Lot width
|
150 feet
| |
|
Lot depth
|
250 feet
| |
|
Front setback
|
75 feet
| |
|
Side yard setback(s):
| ||
|
Total
|
50 feet
| |
|
Any one side
|
20 feet
| |
|
Rear setback
|
75 feet
| |
|
Height (maximum):
| ||
|
Houses and accessory structures
|
35 feet
| |
|
Barns
|
65 feet
| |
|
Lot area — lot area for residences allowed by § 200-27H[1]
|
3 acres
| |
|
Livestock and horses, minimum (limited to two horses per acre)
|
10 acres
| |
Intensive agricultural facilities and animal
waste treatment systems shall be located no closer than 300 feet to
any residence or domestic well water supply, lake, pond, floodplain,
designated wetland, stream, tributary, road right-of-way or property
line, or nonagricultural district.
