The purpose of this chapter is to provide an agricultural district to protect and maintain agricultural land for agricultural purposes.
The following regulations shall apply in all A districts and shall be subject to the provisions of Chapters 17.48 through 17.52.
(Ord. 354 § 17.4.21, 1973)
(1) 
All agricultural uses, including crop and tree farming, livestock farming, except hog, dairy or poultry farming, except the uses indicated in subsection (2) shall not be established until a use permit is first obtained.
(2) 
Stands for sale of products grown on premises; home occupations.
(Ord. 354 § 4.21.1, 1973)
Uses permitted subject to first securing a use permit in each case shall be as follows:
(1) 
Fish and worm farms;
(2) 
Cattle feed yards and animal sales yards;
(3) 
Storage, rental and sales of irrigation equipment;
(4) 
Labor supply and contract labor camps and quarters; construction or trailer park for farm labor;
(5) 
Packing and agricultural processing plants and commercial storage of fertilizer, stock auction and stock sales yards;
(6) 
Public and quasi-public uses including churches, schools accredited to the state school system, parks and play grounds, nonprofit recreation, airports and heliports, landing strips, animal hospital, commercial kennels, boarding kennels, community centers, lodge, club and organization halls and one noncommercial guest house;
(7) 
Golf course with standard length fairways;
(8) 
Public utility buildings and uses and service yards.
(Ord. 354 § 4.21.2, 1973)
Accessory buildings and uses permitted shall be:
(1) 
Accessory buildings and accessory uses, including barns, stables and other farm outbuildings, farm labor quarters (structures or trailers) and quarters for servants employed on the premises, one family dwellings, accessory to an agricultural operation on the same building site;
(2) 
One occupied trailer subject to first obtaining a use permit;
(3) 
Signs shall be permitted as set out in Chapter 17.55; and
(4) 
Accessory dwelling units, in conformance with the standards of Chapter 17.47.
(Ord. 354 § 4.21.3, 1973; Ord. 808 § 21, 2022)
Minimum building site and lot width required, unless combined with any B district shall be as follows:
(1) 
Building Site. Single-family dwellings and dwellings for farm labor employed on-premises, twenty thousand square feet; additional building site permitted subject to first obtaining a use permit for each additional twenty thousand square feet of building site. Packing and processing of agricultural products, three acres. Labor camps or labor trailer park, three acres. Schools, three acres. All other uses, twenty thousand square feet or as prescribed in the use permit;
(2) 
Average building site width shall be one hundred feet. Minimum lot width shall be seventy-five feet.
(Ord. 354 § 4.21.5, 1973)
Development standards are as follows:
Packing houses; processing of agricultural products, commercial processing and storage of fertilizer and mining shall be subject to the provisions of Chapters 17.54 and 17.56 regarding performance standards.
(Ord. 354 § 4.21.7, 1973)
The provisions of Chapter 17.52 shall apply in determining the amount of space that must be provided for each use. The parking space shall be improved as set forth in said chapter.
(Ord. 354 § 4.21.8, 1973)