Chapter 17.56 — AO AGRICULTURAL OVERLAY DISTRICT

The purpose of the AO Agricultural Overlay District is to provide a secondary zoning designation to allow commercial agricultural production to be conducted on properties that are designated on the General Plan and Zoning maps for eventual residential and/or non-residential urban uses, until those urban uses are actually developed. In a rural area characterized by intensive commercial agricultural production, some commercial agricultural uses may be conducted within an urbanizing farm community with minimal adverse impact on adjacent non-agricultural uses. (Ord. 823-2016 § 21 (part), 2016)

A. The AO district may be applied as a secondary zoning designation to properties on which no habitable structures have been constructed, or to those portions of a partially developed property that do not exceed an average density of two (2) residences per five (5) gross acres.

B. The minimum gross area in an AO district shall be five (5) acres.

(Ord. 823-2016 § 21 (part), 2016)

For properties having the secondary AO zoning designation, permitted uses include only those allowed in the AO district. Uses allowed in the primary district may be established upon removal of the AO district pursuant to the zoning amendment procedure described in Chapter 17.06 of this Title.

(Ord. 823-2016 § 21 (part), 2016)

Permitted principal uses in the agricultural overlay district shall be as follows:

• A. Commercial production agriculture, including growing of field crops, orchards, seed crops, and orchard stock.

• B. One single-family dwelling unit per lot provided it meets all of the following:

1. A conventional framed, prefabricated, kit, modular or other manufactured structure may be installed; and,

2. It is placed on a foundation system pursuant to Section 18551 of the Health and Safety Code.

• (Ord. 823-2016 § 21 (part), 2016)

Accessory uses may include any non-residential use that complies with the following criteria:

A. Wholesale and/or retail sales of commodities produced on the site, provided the use is operated as an integral part of the principal use and does not comprise a separate business or activity.

• B. Use of structures or equipment for hulling, drying or otherwise processing the commodities produced on the site.

C. It does not occupy more than five percent (5%) of the gross area of the AO district. (Ord. 823-2016 § 21 (part), 2016)

The following uses may be permitted in an agricultural overlay zone upon approval of a use permit:

• A. Greenhouses.

• B. Keeping of livestock for commercial raising of livestock.

• (Ord. 823-2016 § 21 (part), 2016)

The general provisions of Chapter 17.72 shall apply. For purposes of fence regulations, the AO district is a nonresidential district.

(Ord. 823-2016 § 21 (part), 2016)

The general provisions of Chapter 17.72 shall apply.

(Ord. 823-2016 § 21 (part), 2016)

There shall be no fee applied to an application for this Agricultural Overlay Zone. (Ord. 823- 2016 § 21 (part), 2016)