A-1
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right21
- Accessory buildings and structures
- Accessory uses
- Group home or residential facility, for eight or fewer adults
- Manufactured homes that are on a permanent foundation
- Single-family detached dwellings
- Greenhouses, commercial
- Home occupations
- Horse and pony farms (including the raising and keeping of horses), riding stables
- House museums
- Nurseries
- Slaughter of animals for personal use but not for commercial purposes
- Fish farming and aquaculture
- General agriculture operation, production agriculture or silviculture activity, dairying, forestry, general farming, and specialized farming
- Limited farm brewery
- Limited farm distillery
- Intensive agriculture
- Petroleum storage on a farm as an accessory use and not for resale
- Sale of agricultural or silvicultural products
- Storage and repair of heavy equipment as an accessory use to a farm
- Wineries, as herein defined, including a shop for retail sale of wine
- Preserves and conservation areas for protection of natural features and wildlife
Conditional / special use55
- Group homes or residential facilities for nine or more adults
- Group quarters for agricultural workers
- Home care facilities
- Manufactured home parks
- Two-family dwellings
- Adult day care centers
- Airports and landing fields, heliports or helistops
- Animal hospitals, veterinary offices and kennels
- Automobile graveyards
- Automobile repair and service
- Beauty and barber shops
- Campgrounds
- Cemeteries and memorial gardens
- Contractors' warehouses, sheds, and offices
- Day care and child care centers
- Dinner theaters and dance halls as an accessory use to a restaurant or tavern
- Farm equipment sales and service
- Feed, seed and farm supplies
- Flea markets, temporary or seasonal
- Food processing and storage
- Golf courses and country clubs
- Horse racing tracks
- Horse show areas, polo fields
- Hospitals and nursing homes
- Hunting preserve or club, rifle or pistol range, trap or skeet shooting
- Lumber and building supply stores
- Medical clinics
- Petroleum storage, other than on a farm for farm use or accessory for a residence
- Race tracks for animals or vehicles
- Railroad facilities
- Rental of rooms to a maximum of three rooms
- Restaurants, taverns
- Retreat facilities
- Retail sales of plant and garden supplies
- Retail shops associated with community recreation facilities
- Slaughterhouses
- Small-scale alcohol production
- Tourist homes
- Upholstery shops
- Waterfront business activities
- Wineries, with accessory commercial facilities
- Fire stations, rescue squad stations
- Places of public assembly
- Post offices and public buildings generally
- Schools, libraries, museums and similar institutions
- Seminaries
- Telephone exchanges and telephone switching stations
- Transmission pipelines
- Utility substations
- Water facilities (public or private), and sewer facilities (public)
- Excavation or filling, borrow pits, extraction, processing and removal of sand and gravel
- Manufacture and sale of wood products
- Solid waste transfer stations
- Storage and repair of heavy equipment
- Storage, stockpiling and distribution of sand, gravel and crushed stone
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum net density0.05 du/acdu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
Parcels subject to section 24-214(a)(2) shall have a maximum net density of one unit per twenty acres.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase to 45 ft with side yards45 ft
The height limit for buildings may be increased to 45 feet and to three stories; provided, that the two side yards for the building are increased to a minimum of 15 feet plus one foot for each additional foot of the building's height over 35 feet.
Other
- Cluster configuration requirements
Upon issuance of a special use permit, a cluster configuration subdivision may be approved provided that overall net density does not exceed one dwelling unit per twenty acres, no lot less than one acre, etc.
- Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line. by lot size250 ft
Lots of five acres or more shall have a minimum lot width at the setback line of 250 feet.
- Right-of-way buffer on Wooded Community Character Corridors200 ft
The minimum right-of-way buffer on Wooded Community Character Corridors located outside the primary service area as defined in the comprehensive plan shall be 200 feet.
- Livestock stocking rates
A ratio of one acre of open land per seven horses, eight dairy cattle, 13 slaughter or feeder cattle, 33 swine, or 130 sheep shall be provided for each agricultural operation.
Setback
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from narrow streets75 ft
If the street right-of-way is less than 50 feet in width, structures shall be located a minimum of 75 feet from the centerline of the street.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for lots >=3 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.75 ft
where the minimum lot area is three acres or more, the minimum setback shall be 75 feet from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width and 100 feet from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width.
Signage
- Sign regulations
Outdoor signs on the properties within the district shall comply with the regulations for exterior signs in article II, division 3 of this chapter.
From the ordinance
General Agricultural District, A-1, intended for rural areas. Min lot 20 acres, setbacks 50 ft from ROW, side 15 ft, rear 35 ft, height 35 ft.