The Agricultural Zone is established as a zone in which agriculture
and certain related uses are encouraged as the principal uses of land.
The specific intent of the Agricultural Zone is to facilitate the
long-term use of lands best suited to agricultural production by preventing
a mixture of urban and rural uses which often create incompatibilities
and conflicts with agricultural pursuits which place unbalanced tax
loads on agricultural lands and which may result in speculative or
inflated land values which encourage the premature termination of
agricultural pursuits.
This VA-1 Zone shall specifically permit all agricultural pursuits,
including animal husbandry, and shall also include golf courses, public
parks, recreational facilities, game preserves, all public and private
schools, electric and telephone transmissions, government utility
towers (under 50 feet in height) or relay stations, veterinary hospitals,
riding stables, forest preserves, fish hatcheries, facilities for
sale of home processed or unprocessed farm produce grown or raised
on the premises, tree and plant nurseries and all similar horticulture
or animal husbandry related uses and normal accessory farm buildings.
The following uses may be permitted in the VA-1 Zone as special
uses after a public hearing and a finding by the Board that such uses
are necessary and desirable in a particular location:
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Airports
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Amphitheaters
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Canneries
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Cemeteries
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Drag or circular race tracks
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Drive-in theaters
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Fair grounds
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Food packing
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Grain elevators
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Gravel and sand pits
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Hospitals and sanitariums
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Junk and/or automobile wrecking yards
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Livestock auction houses
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Mills
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Nursing homes
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Private parks
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Rifle ranges
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Sanitary landfills
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Shooting preserves
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Skeet and trap shoot areas
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Slaughterhouses
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Stockyards
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Summer theaters
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Utility or government towers over 50 feet
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Other uses related to agriculture but not clearly included in
the list of allowable uses
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The following are conditions where special restrictions shall
apply to the uses allowed in the VA-1 Zone:
A.
Golf course fairways shall not be permitted closer than 300 feet
to any residential boundary.
B.
Hogs or livestock, or more than five animals for riding, hunting,
domestic pets or fur production, shall not be confined or housed within
150 feet of any residential zone.
C.
All facilities for the processing of agriculture products, including,
but not limited to, canneries, stockyards, cob plants and elevators,
shall be kept at least 300 feet from residential zones.
