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19 <br />Activity' <br />Considered <br />"Exempt" <br />from zoning <br />regulations if <br />bona fide farm ?" <br />Environmental <br />Health Concerns or <br />Comments <br />Building Code <br />Concerns or <br />Comments <br />Zoning /Land Use <br />Concerns or Comments <br />Clarify the "25% rule" for on -farm sales - <br />If "stores" are <br />No building permits <br />A farm selling products <br />historically farms stands have been required to <br />required to have <br />required if <br />from other farms falls <br />raise 75% of what is sold. This makes sense - we <br />bathroom facilities, <br />building /structure is <br />under the second use <br />don't want farm stands to become convenience <br />water supply permits <br />less than 1,000 sq. ft. <br />in this table: On -farm <br />stores, but suppose the farm stand is the result <br />and septic permits <br />and open no more <br />stores — selling <br />of two or three farms collaborating? Does the <br />may be necessary. <br />than 180 days per <br />products from around <br />rule apply then? Why not allow two <br />year. <br />the community (local, <br />neighboring farms, one with a good location for <br />but multiple farms and <br />a farm stand, to collaborate somehow in the <br />crafts, etc). <br />marketing without opening the door to a de- <br />The state statute that <br />facto general purpose market. <br />N/A <br />pertains to the "25% <br />[Staff Note: the "25% rule" is in reference to § <br />rule" specifically states <br />106 -743.4 and pertains to enhanced voluntary <br />25% of gross sales may <br />agricultural districts] <br />come from the sale of <br />nonfarm products and <br />still qualify as a bona <br />fide farm. County <br />ordinances cannot <br />change the percentage <br />spelled out in State <br />statutes. <br />