Sec. 83-485
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. land
- Geographic extent
- New residential, institutional, commercial, or industrial development abutting land zoned A-20, A-10, or A-C and used for agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. operations
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. buffer width100 ft
The agricultural buffer shall be at least 100 feet wide, except for properties located within Route 60 Corridor East Special Area Plan area, as designated in the comprehensive plan, where a 50-foot agricultural buffer shall be required for properties 100 acres or greater and that no agricultural buffer shall be required for properties less than 100 acres.
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. buffer width in Route 60 Corridor East for properties >=100 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.50 ft
For properties located within Route 60 Corridor East Special Area Plan area, a 50-foot agricultural buffer shall be required for properties 100 acres or greater and no agricultural buffer for properties less than 100 acres.
- Maximum buffer width reduction20 pct
The director may allow the buffer width to be reduced by up to 20 percent upon determining that the reduced buffer width is justified by the type or intensity of the adjacent agricultural operations, an intervening topographic change, an intervening riparian buffer, or the existence or provision of vegetation in addition to that required.
- Minimum mature tree crown width25 ft
Each tree shall be a native species that can be expected to attain a minimum height of 35 feet and have a crown width of 25 feet or greater at maturity.
- Minimum mature tree heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.35 ft
Each tree shall be a native species that can be expected to attain a minimum height of 35 feet and have a crown width of 25 feet or greater at maturity.
- Minimum tree caliper at planting2 in
Each tree shall be a minimum height of eight feet and minimum caliper of two inches when planted.
- Minimum tree heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. at planting8 ft
Each tree shall be a minimum height of eight feet and minimum caliper of two inches when planted.
- Tree spacing in buffer adjacent to residential10 ft
The buffer shall be planted with a minimum of two off-set rows of trees planted that provides an average spacing between trees of ten feet or less.
From the ordinance
The new development shall provide and maintain a vegetative buffer along all property lines abutting land used for agricultural operations for as long as the agricultural operations continue.