The purpose of this district is to:
A. Recognize
and seek to preserve agricultural lands and to protect environmentally
sensitive areas, considering topography, soil type and present use.
B. Steer
more dense growth away from the AG District and to areas closer to
community facilities and services.
C. Recognize
areas that would be difficult and expensive to extend sewer and water
lines and to continue to sewer because of pumping station costs.
D. Encourage clustering of homes in the AG District under the optional provisions of Article
XXII, especially to provide landscaped buffers between homes and Routes 22 and 33.
Only the following uses are permitted by right in the AG District, provided that the requirements for specific uses of Article
XX are met:
A. The following residential uses:
(1)
Single-family detached dwelling.
(a)
Provided that the dwelling would not be located
closer than 150 feet to the outer limits of areas being currently
actively used for an animal husbandry use, except for a dwelling owned
by the owner of the animal husbandry use.
(b)
Mobile/manufactured home.
B. The following agricultural uses:
(3)
Plant nursery, including retail sales only of items grown on the premises.
(4)
Commercial and noncommercial crop storage.
C. The following miscellaneous uses:
(5)
Animal hospital, small or large.
(6)
Public or private primary or secondary school.
(11)
Publicly owned recreation.
(17)
Co-located commercial communications antenna.
[Added 3-19-2001 by Ord. No. 03-01]
D. The following accessory uses:
(1)
Retail sales of agricultural products produced
on the premises.
(2)
Accessory apartment within an existing single-family
detached dwelling.
(3)
No-impact home-based business.
[Amended 12-20-2004 by Ord. No. 10-04]
(5)
Accessory use or structure clearly customary
and incidental to a permitted by right, special exception or conditional
use.
(7)
Sale of agricultural fertilizers, seeds or animal
feed, not involving manufacture or processing.
(9)
Recreational facilities limited to use by residents
of a development and their occasional guests.
(11)
Home occupation, minor.
[Added 12-20-2004 by Ord. No. 10-04]
Only the following uses are permitted by special exception in the AG District, provided that the requirements for specific uses of Article
XX are met:
B. Recycling collection center.
C. Limited office conversion, within the requirements of §
275-41. This use may also be allowed within an existing nonresidential accessory building with a floor area of 300 square feet or larger that is an accessory to a dwelling that would meet the criteria of §
275-41.
D. Home occupation, major.
[Amended 12-20-2004 by Ord. No. 10-04]
F. Septage or sludge application.
Only the following uses are permitted conditional uses in the AG District, provided that the requirements for specific uses of Article
XX are met:
A. Emergency services station.
B. Public or private airport or heliport.
C. Single-family cluster development, within Article
XXII.
D. Commercial communications tower. [See § 275-290A(17).]
[Added 3-19-2001 by Ord. No. 03-01]
E. Prison.
(1) The Board of Commissioners must hold a conditional use hearing on any applications under this section, and the conditional use hearing shall proceed in accordance with Article
I, §
275-20, of the Codified Ordinances.
Lot and setback regulations for uses in the AG District shall be as follows, unless a more restrictive requirement is stated in Article
XX for a particular use or elsewhere in this chapter. See definitions of these terms in Article
II.
A. Minimum lot area.
(1)
With both public water and public sewer service:
43,560 square feet.
(2)
With either public water or public sewer service:
1 1/2 acres.
(3)
With neither public water or public sewer service:
two acres.
(4)
See provisions of Article
XXII, which allow reductions in the lot area through clustering.
B. Minimum lot depth: 150 feet.
C. Minimum lot width: 150 feet, except 250 feet for any
use with a driveway entering directly onto an arterial or connector
street and except 200 feet for any lot required to have a lot area
of two acres or larger.
D. Maximum lot coverage: 40% for buildings, 50% for total
impervious surfaces.
E. Minimum front yard setbacks, principal and accessory
buildings: 50 feet.
F. Minimum side yard setback, principal and accessory
buildings: 20 feet for each of two side yards.
G. Minimum rear yard setback, principal building: 50
feet; accessory building: 15 feet.
H. Minimum setback from expressways and arterial streets: the requirements of §
275-34H shall apply for an expressway. No building shall be constructed within 45 feet of the existing right-of-way line of an arterial street.
I. Maximum height: 3 1/2 stories or 35 feet, whichever
is less, except a maximum of 120 feet for agricultural buildings.
J. Minimum principal building setback from industrial
districts, for any dwelling, from any boundary of a GI, LI or OB District:
80 feet.