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Attachment B <br />This list was put together by the Agricultural <br />Preservation Board (APB) in the Fall of 2012 <br />Possible Agricultural - Related Activities and Uses <br />(for "clarification" as part of Conditional Use Zoning) <br />1. On -farm Stores — Produce Stands, selling products grown on the farm <br />2. On -farm stores — selling products from around the community (local, but multiple <br />farms and crafts, etc) <br />3. Farm and Garden Supply Stores <br />4. Agri- tourism facilities <br />5. Solar arrays <br />6. Beef processing (slaughter, packaging, selling) <br />7. Farm Stay Workers - people staying at a farm as paying guests doing farm <br />work. The differentiation between this use and a B &B would be <br />1. The guests "pay for" their accommodations and board in part by working <br />on the farm; <br />2. The main business of the farm would not be guests; <br />3. Guests would be staying a minimum of a week; and <br />4. Other criteria to justify this exception, like limiting the number of rooms for <br />farm stay guests, etc. <br />8. Farm dinners - farms can offer (and charge for) dinners featuring their products <br />without having to be a restaurant, cafeteria, etc. Limitations might include: <br />1. Food served would have to be grown or raised on the farm; <br />2. Kitchen would have to meet "good housekeeping" standards; <br />3. Limit to 12 events per year or something; and <br />4. Other limitations to prevent farm pseudo- restaurants. <br />9. Clarify the "25% rule" for on -farm sales - historically farms stands have been <br />required to raise 75% of what is sold. This makes sense - we don't want farm <br />stands to become convenience stores, but suppose the farm stand is the result <br />of two or three farms collaborating? Does the rule apply then? Why not allow <br />two neighboring farms, one with a good location for a farm stand, to collaborate <br />somehow in the marketing without opening the door to a de -facto general <br />purpose market. <br />10. Allow farms to become small alternative - energy utilities. I know this is more of a <br />NC utilities commission rule, but based on our knowledge, farms are limited to <br />10K watts or else they become subject to a much more complicated application <br />and approval process. Farms ought to be able to generate 1 million watts if they <br />want to. (needs more review with Utilities Commission). <br />14 <br />