This district has been established and the regulations of this
article enacted in support of the following purposes:
A. To accommodate and regulate those agricultural activities which,
by reason of their impacts upon the surrounding lands, are more similar
to industrial uses than other agricultural activities;
B. To accommodate food-processing activities;
C. To provide for special agricultural activities which require an unusual
intensity of use in order to be economically viable;
D. To provide locations for intensified agricultural activities which
will minimize complaint from residents in regard to odor, noise, glare,
dust, and any other potentially objectionable externality which is
a normal by-product of such activities;
E. To regulate intensified agricultural activities such that negative
impacts upon the surrounding environment are minimized;
F. To provide for heavy commercial uses and heavy industrial uses under
certain controlled conditions; and
G. To allow for heavy commercial, industrial and special intensified
agricultural activities consistent with these purposes.