A-1
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. covers large portion of non-urbanized sections of the County
Uses
Permitted by right16
- Churches, schools, colleges, libraries, parks, playgrounds and athletic fields
- Class A and Class B home occupations
- Facilities and structures necessary for the rendering of public utility service
- General farming—agricultural, dairying and forestry
- Individual mobile homes and/or manufactured homes
- Nonintensive farming activities
- Preserves and conservation areas
- Private and family cemeteries
- Sawmills and forestry operations
- Seasonal wayside stands located on producer's property
- Single-family dwellings
- Small boat docks
- Small scale solar energy facilities
- Temporary uses
- Two-family attached dwellings and duplexes
- Waste collection and recycling centers
Conditional / special use22
- Antique shops
- Cabins, cabin groupings, camps for seasonal occupancy
- Clubs, fraternities, hunting clubs and lodges
- Commercial stables and kennels
- Commercial and pet cemeteries
- Country clubs and other public and private noncommercial recreational areas
- Firearm sports and training facilities
- Group homes and child welfare homes
- Homeless shelters or transitional living facilities
- Landfills
- Large scale solar energy facilities
- Livestock markets
- Meat cutting, packaging, and processing
- Nursery schools, day care facilities, and family day care homes
- Outdoor music festivals
- Prisons or prison farms
- Racetracks
- Radio stations and towers higher than the height limit
- Rest homes
- Restaurants with no drive-in window facilities
- Retail sales establishments
- Promotional, amusement, and entertainment facilities
Accessory1
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Tower heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.
Towers may be erected to a height greater than seventy-five (75) feet if a special use permit is approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Lot
- Lot of record exception
Any lot of record as of the effective date of this section which has less area than the minimum requirement of this section may be used for a single detached residential unit as would otherwise be permitted by this article.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.3 ft
No accessory building may be closer than three (3) feet to any property line.
- Corner lot side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.25 ft
The minimum side yard facing the direction of the side street shall be twenty-five (25) feet or more for both main and accessory buildings.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. conditionalConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.
The front setback line shall be located thirty-five (35) feet from any street right-of-way which is fifty (50) feet or greater in width or sixty (60) feet from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than fifty (50) feet in width.
- Individual water/sewage approval
For permitted uses utilizing an individual water or sewage disposal system, the required area for any such use shall be approved by the Health Official.
From the ordinance
Agricultural District A-1: min lot area 1 acre, front setback 35 ft, side 15 ft, rear 50 ft, height 75 ft.