18.08.040
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Farm management lighting requirements
All exterior lighting, including landscape lighting, for farm management uses shall be shielded and directed downward, located as low to the ground as possible, and the minimum necessary for security, safety, or operations. Additionally, motion detection sensors must be incorporated to the greatest extent practical. No flood-lighting or sodium lighting of buildings is permitted, including architectural highlighting and spotting. Low-level lighting shall be utilized in parking areas as opposed to elevated high-intensity light standards.
Other
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. processing requires use permit
Agriculture shall include the following, but only upon grant of a use permit pursuant to Section 18.124.010: Production and processing of agricultural products, including agricultural processing facilities; and Marketing, sales, and other accessory uses that are related, incidental and subordinate to the main agricultural processing use.
Agriculture means the raising of crops or livestock and includes: growing and raising trees, vines, shrubs, berries, vegetables, nursery stock, hay, grain and similar food crops and fiber crops; grazing of livestock; animal husbandry; farmworker housing; sale of agricultural products grown on premises; farm management uses.
- Maximum farm management area15 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Farm management activities established or expanded after June 30, 2006, alone or in combination with any wineries subject to Section 18.104.220 shall not occupy more than fifteen acres or twenty-five percent of the parcel size, whichever is less.
- Maximum farm management area25 pct
Farm management activities established or expanded after June 30, 2006, alone or in combination with any wineries subject to Section 18.104.220 shall not occupy more than fifteen acres or twenty-five percent of the parcel size, whichever is less.
- Maximum farm management building size5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No single farm management building or structure newly constructed or expanded after June 30, 2006 shall exceed five thousand gross square feet.
- Farm management screening requirement
Uncovered storage areas shall be screened from preexisting residences on adjacent parcels and from designated public roads defined in Chapter 18.106. Screening shall generally consist of evergreen landscape buffers.
- Rooster limit1 roosters per 0.5-1.5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Agriculture shall not include the raising and keeping of more than one rooster per 0.5 to 1.5 acres and up to four roosters for legal parcels greater than 1.5 acres.
- Rooster limit for large parcels4 roosters
Agriculture shall not include the raising and keeping of more than one rooster per 0.5 to 1.5 acres and up to four roosters for legal parcels greater than 1.5 acres.
From the ordinance
"Agriculture" means the raising of crops or livestock and includes the following: A. Growing and raising trees, vines, shrubs, berries, vegetables, nursery stock, hay, grain and similar food crops and fiber crops; B. Grazing of livestock and feeding incidental thereto; C. Animal husbandry...