18.200.010 Rural and agricultural use classifications.
Animal and Crop Production. The keeping, grazing, feeding, or breeding of animals by the property owner or occupant for commercial gain and/or the growing and harvesting of agricultural products to provide food, fiber, or horticultural vegetation for ornamental purposes, or any combination of these uses. Typical uses include dairy and poultry farms, the growing of field crops, and fruit and nut orchards. This use does not include nurseries, greenhouses, processing, or retail sales of agricultural products from the site. It does not include medical marijuana collectives, home gardens, or community gardens.
Large Scale. Commercial agricultural production that is a minimum of 10 contiguous commercial acres which is being used for the production of farm, garden, or orchard crops, or the grazing or raising of farm animals, including feeding pens that are incidental and subordinate to a grazing operation.
Small Scale. Commercial agricultural production that is more than one but not more than 10 contiguous commercial acres which is being used primarily for the production of farm, garden, or orchard crops, and may include the grazing or raising of farm animals.
Urban Agriculture. A use that occupies one acre or more for the production of food or horticultural crops to be harvested, sold, or donated. It includes home, kitchen, and roof gardens, and private farms. It does not include community gardens. Limited sales and donation of fresh food and/or horticultural products grown on site may occur, whether vacant or improved, but such sales may not occur within a dwelling unit. Food and/or horticultural products grown that are used for personal consumption are not regulated.
Animal and Crop Sales. The term “general agriculture” includes such uses as the necessary treatment, packing or storage of farm products produced on premises, the sale of any farm crops or livestock raised on premises, and any signs, structures, or fences utilized for agricultural functions.
General Agricultural. Land which is being used for the production of farm, garden, or orchard crops, or the grazing or raising of farm animals, including feeding pens that are incidental and subordinate to a grazing operation. Examples of commodities produced include vegetables, fruit trees, grapes, cotton, grain, poultry, horses, cattle, sheep and swine. It includes dairy operations, including areas designated for raising heifers and bulls. It does not include signs advertising off-premises facilities, junkyards, other retail sales, manufacturing, any nonagricultural services, stockyards, slaughterhouses/meat packing plants, commercial pen feeding, production wineries, bone yards, plants for the reduction of animal matter, poultry feeding operations, or agricultural processing plants.
Farmers and Animal Produce Stand. A stand located on an active farm that sells processed agricultural products, such as jams, preserves, pickles, juices, cured olives, and other value-added products made with ingredients produced on or near the farm, in addition to fresh produce, eggs, and other goods produced on the farm. These stands should be accessory to on-site agricultural operations. The intent is to encourage the sale of locally grown fresh produce, not the establishment of traditional retail stores or convenience markets in agricultural zones. [Ord. 18-05 § 1; Res. 18-20; Ord. 14-12 § 1; Res. 14-36 Art. 601.]