Chapter 25.26 AG AGRICULTURAL ZONE
Section 25.26.120 Principal permitted uses.
The following uses are permitted as of right in the AG zone:
1. Agriculture, subject to all city and state laws and regulations
including regulations of the
department of health, and including the raising of field crops, horticulture, and animal husbandry,
including feed lots, poultry farms and kennels and the necessary or usual ranch and farm
dwellings;
2. Parks and recreation areas operated by the city;
3. Riding academies;
4. Public utility buildings and installations necessary to
the operation of a public utility other
than offices, material yards or repair shops;
5. Greenhouses and nurseries;
6. Railroad through and spur tracks, but no sidings or other
terminal-type facilities and no
service, repair or administrative facilities;
7. Carnivals and similar exhibitions, subject to the provisions
and standards of Chapter 4.14 of
this code;
8. Single-family detached dwellings subject to the following
standards:
a. For all building permits issued
after July 31, 1984, the principal structure shall have a
floor area of not less than six hundred forty square feet; and a minimum width for any building
elevation of not less than twenty feet, and
b. All principal structures shall
be roofed with a nonmetal type of roofing material, and
c. All principal structures shall be
sided with material other than flat or corrugated sheet
metal.
9. Extraction or landfilling, except as related to an approved
subdivision plat or building
permit, subject to the following conditions:
a. The requirements for a grading permit
pursuant to Chapter 20.30 must be satisfied.
b. The extraction or landfilling site
must be at least 300 feet from any residentially used
property.
c. The extraction or landfilling process
must be completed within one construction season.
d. Access to and from the site must
be directly to an arterial street or on a route approved by
the Public Works Department.
e. Trucks and other machinery shall
be operated only between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., Monday
through Friday and 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday.
f. Nuisance complaints related to dust,
traffic, noise, or other impacts of the extraction or
landfilling operation must be resolved in a timely mannerby cooperative efforts of the grading
permit holder.
g. The extraction or landfilling site does not occur in the Loes Hills within that area visible from
the
Loess Hills National Scenic Byway located on Highway 12 and Interstate Highway 29 as defined in Section
20.30.040.
10. Golf courses.
(Ord. 2008-0249; 2001-0740; 2000-9159; 98/U-6494; 84/T-3040; S-35447, 1978; S-30424,
1976)