Nelson County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Article 2, Definitions - Agricultural processing facility, major
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Major agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. processing facility threshold - percent not produced on site50 pct
entails the preparation, processing, or sale of food products, or accumulation for shipment or sale of crops and animals, in connection with an agricultural operation when more than fifty (50) percent of such crops or animals are not produced on an agricultural operation on the same or contiguous parcel(s)
- Major agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. processing facility threshold - enclosed space10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
has more than ten thousand (10,000) square feet of enclosed space devoted to agricultural processing operations
From the ordinance
A major agricultural processing facility is one that either (i) has more than ten thousand (10,000) square feet of enclosed space devoted to agricultural processing operations or (ii) entails the preparation, processing, or sale of food products, or accumulation for shipment or sale of crops and animals, in connection with an agricultural operation when more than fifty (50) percent of such crops or animals are not produced on an agricultural operation on the same or contiguous parcel(s) owned or controlled by the operator of the facility.