This chapter is adopted with the intent of establishing
the right to farm in Alexandria Township and setting forth protections
applicable to commercial farm operations.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ACCEPTABLE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Agricultural management practices recommended or endorsed
by the State Agricultural Development Committee as interpreted by
the Hunterdon County Agricultural Development Board and all relevant
federal or state statutes or rules and regulations adopted pursuant
thereto.
COMMERCIAL FARM
Any operation producing, with the expectation of sale, agricultural
or horticultural products worth $2,500 or more annually (c.f. P.L.
1983, c. 31) which meets the eligibility criteria for differential
property taxation pursuant to the Farmland Assessment Act of 1964,
P.L. 1964, c. 48 (N.J.S.A. 54:4-23.1 et seq.).
NUISANCE
Any private action which unreasonably interferes with the
comfortable enjoyment of another's property, which may be enjoined
or abated, and for which the injured or affected property owner may
recover damages.
[Added 12-10-1997; amended 6-14-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-01]
For the purpose of giving due notice of nearby
farming uses to proposed new residential areas adjacent to unimproved
land then being farmed or suitable therefor, the Land Use Board shall
require any applicant for an adjacent major or minor subdivision,
as a condition of approval of such application, to include, a provision
in each and every deed conveying all or any portion of the lands thereby
subdivided, as well as on filed final subdivision maps, the following
record notice to and waiver by grantees of such present or future
proximate farming uses, which provision shall be made to run with
the land.
A. The grantee hereby acknowledges notice that there
are presently or may in the future be farm uses adjacent or in close
proximity to the within described premises from which farm use may
emanate noise, odors, dust and fumes associated with agricultural
practices permitted under the Alexandria Township Right to Farm Ordinance,
and, by acceptance of this conveyance, the grantee does hereby waive
objection to such activities.