Shafter Zoning Code § 7.30 Agricultural Use Regulations (CA)

Identified on Table 7.A of this Chapter are those land uses or activities that may be permitted within the Agricultural zone district, subject to the provisions of this Title and applicable General Plan policies. Table 7.A also indicates the development procedure and the approval type by which each listed land use or activity may be permitted in an Agricultural zone district.

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Table 7.A Uses Permitted Within the Agricultural District

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Not Permitted in This District
P Permitted Subject to Consistency Assessment
C Permitted Subject to Approval of a Conditional Use Permit Application

	CONDITION OFUSE
A. AGRICULTURAL USES
1. Agricultural chemical storage and repackaging	C
2. Agricultural services, when incidental and secondary to the primary use of thepremises for agriculture	P
3. Agricultural truckingfacilities	C
4. Alcohol distillery	C
5. Animal products processing, including meat packing, canning, and shipping, when the livestock is produced or grown by the owner of the processing facility on the premises or on land leased, rented, or owned by the owner of the processing facility and within a reasonable distance of the facility	C
6. Bee keeping	P
7. Beef cattle or livestockgrazing	P
8. Berrycrops	P
9. Biomass energyconversion	C
10. Birds, includingshow or racing pigeons and other small fowl	P
11. Brewery	C
12. Row crops	P
13. Christmas trees	P
14. Cold storage facilityfor agriculturalproducts	P
15. Contract harvesting	P
16. Cottongin	C
17. Creamery	C
18. Dairy
19. Dairystockgrazing
20. Farm machineryand equipment repair	P
21. Fertilizer manufacture and storage for agricultural uses only	C
22. Field crops, dryland	P
23. Field crops,irrigated	P
24. Fish and frogs	P
25. Flowers and horticultural specialties, wholesale only	P
26. Flour mill	C
27. Fruit, vegetable, and plant products processing, including freezing, packing,preserving, and shipping	P
28. Glucoseprocessing	C

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	CONDITION OFUSE
29. Grain elevator or storage	C
30. Hogs, hogfarm, or ranch	C
31. Honeyextraction	P
32. Horses, donkeys, llamas, or mules	P
33. Livestock feed lot or stock auction or salesyard forhoofedanimals
34. Oil or mineral extraction	C
35. Poultry,includinghatching, breeding, butchering, processing, or shipping of chickens, ostriches, emus, turkeys, or other fowl or poultry,including eggs
36. Rabbits or fur-bearinganimals	P
37. Saw orplaningmill	C
38. Sheep,goat and hogfarms
39. Tastingroom, when accessoryto an existingwinery orbrewery	C
40. Wineryor brewery	C
41. Woolpullingand scouring
B. COMMERCIAL USES
1. Fireworks Stand, subject to the provisions of Section 11.160 of this Title	P
2. Fruit stand,permanent	P
3. Fruit stand,temporary,pursuant to this chapter	P
4. Veterinary, large animal	P
C. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND SCHOOLS
1. Preschool	C
2. Elementaryschool	C
3. Junior high school	C
4. Senior high school	C
5. College or university	C
D. INSTITUTIONAL USES
1. Cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, mortuary, or crematory	C
2. Charitable orpublic service organization	C
3. Church	C
4. Fire orpolice station	P
5. Government office or building	P
6. Public agencyorpublic utilitybuildings and facilities	P
7. Rehabilitation facilities, when operated in conjunction with a permitted use	C
8. Water treatment plant unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then Permitted	C
9. Zoo	C
E. MISCELLANEOUS USES
1. Accessory buildings, including cargo containers, if incidental and access to apermitted use	C

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	CONDITION OFUSE
2. Accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a conditionally permitted use	C
3. Day-care home, large family,pursuant to this title	C
4. Day-care home, small family	P
5. Drainage sump	C
6. Drainage sump, if proposed and approved as part of a tentative subdivision or tentativeparcel map	P
7. Flood control facilities	P
8. Huntingor Fishingclub, not involvingstructures	C
9. Marijuana uses, as defined under Section 1.190 and subject to the provisions of Section 11.300 are regulated in the agricultural district.
10. Medical Cannabis Uses, as defined under Section 1.190 and subject to the provisions of Section 11.290, are prohibited in the agricultural district.
11. Water storage orgroundwater recharge facilities	P
12. Wild animal keeping	C
13. Wildlife or nature reserve	P
F. RECREATION ENTERTAINMENT AND TOURIST FACILITIES
1. Equestrian establishment	C
2. Golf course/drivingrange	C
3. Guest ranch, when accessoryto a commercial ranchingoperation	C
4. Lakes,private, for recreational skiingor boating	C
5. Park or playground unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then Permitted	C
6. Racetrack or test track, automobile, bicycle, horse, or motorcycle	C
7. Recreational vehiclepark	C
8. Shooting range or gun club, simulated war games, or similar activities, outdoor only	C
9. Trade fairs and exhibitions, temporary (14 day maximum), excluding flea markets and swap meets (subject to provision of 2.120. of this Title)	P
G. RESIDENTIAL USES
1. Farm labor housing for on-site employees (per California H&S Section 17021.6)subject to Sections 2.80(3)and 2.140)	P
2. Farm labor housing for contract labor (per California H&S Section 17021.6)subject to Sections2.80(3)and 2.140)	P
3. Residential accessorystructures	P
4. Residential facility,servingsix or fewerpersons	P
5. Single-family dwelling, occupied by the owner or full-time on-site employee	P
H. RESOURCE EXTRACTION AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT USES
1. Coal-fired cogeneration facility or steam generators, primarily intended forproduction of oil orgas	C

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	CONDITION OFUSE
2. Cogeneration facility or steam generators, primarily intended for steam production used for production of oil or gas, excluding coal fired	C
3. Concrete or asphalt batchplant, temporary	C
4. Electricalpowergenerating plant	C
5. Explosives storage,temporary	C
6. Explosives storage,permanent	C
7. Mineral exploration	C
8. Miningand mineral extractionpursuant toprovisions of this Title	C
9. Oil or gas exploration and production pursuant to provisions of this Title	P
10. Rock, gravel, sand, or soils, crushing, processing, or distribution, when accessoryto an approved miningoperation	C
11. Solar energy electrical generators with a rated capacity of no greater than five kilowatts for on-site consumption of the electricity	P
12. Solar energy electrical generators, commercial or domestic, exceedingfive kilowatts capacity	C
13. Wind-driven electricalgenerators for on-site consumption of electricity	C
I. TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES
1. Airport,private(If not within an approved airportplan)	C
2. Airport,public(If not within an approved airportplan)	C
3. Heliport(If not within an approved airportplan)	C
4. Rail, Rail Freight Classification or SwitchingYard, and Rail Spurs	P
J. UTILITY AND COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES
1. Radio, television or commercial communications transmitter, receiver, ortranslator,except as specified in this Title.	P
2. Transmission lines and supporting towers, poles, microwave towers, and underground facilities for gas, water, electricity, telephone, or telegraph service owned and operated by a public utility company or other company under the jurisdiction of the California Public Utilities Commissionpursuant to this Title.	C
3. Utilitysubstation	P
K. WASTE FACILITIES
1. Hazardous waste disposalfacilityunless project otherwise entails a public hearing;thenPermitted	C
2. Nonhazardous oil production and/or oily waste disposal facility unless project otherwise entails apublic hearing; then Permitted	C
3. Sanitary landfillunlessproject otherwise entails a public hearing; then Permitted	C
4. Septage disposal site unless project otherwiseentailsa public hearing; then Permitted	C
5. Sewage sludge composting unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then Permitted	C
6. Sewage treatment plant unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then Permitted	C

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	CONDITION OFUSE
7. Transfer station, large and small volume unless project otherwise entails apublic hearing; then Permitted	C
8. Waste to energy facility unless project otherwise entails a public hearing; then Permitted	C
L. Other uses similar to, and no more objectionable than the uses identified above, shall be reviewed per the process required by the similar use,asdetermined bythePlanning Commission.

L. Other uses similar to, and no more objectionable than the uses identified above, shall be reviewed per the process required by the similar use, as determined by the Planning Commission.

Table 7.A Uses Permitted Within the Agricultural District

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