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Approved 7/1/2015 3 109 Paul Guthrie: How is processing defined? What if five farmers are growing wheat and they put a threshing machine 110 for all them on one farm for an extended period of time. Would that be a processing system? 111 112 Perdita Holtz: If the machine was outside and not in a building for a limited amount of time. Technically it may be 113 considered, but may fall under bona fide farm regulations. 114 115 Tony Blake: It is not beef processing? 116 117 Perdita Holtz: That would be under meat processing. 118 119 Lydia Wegman: But that is permitted? 120 121 Perdita Holtz: Community meat processing would be permitted, but that is not agricultural processing under the 122 definition. There is non-meat and meat. 123 124 Lydia Wegman: It says, permitted by right. 125 126 Perdita Holtz: On the table of permitted uses, a community meat processing facility would be permitted by right. 127 128 Lydia Wegman: If it is permitted by right, that means only the staff gets to address those issues, correct? So the 129 public has no input at all regarding size, noise, and smell? 130 131 Perdita Holtz: Yes. But there are standards about the size and what is permitted. In the use specific standards for a 132 community meat processing facility, the building cannot be more than 10,000 square feet, located at least 100 feet 133 from the property lines, and outdoor storage only in the rear yard, screened from view. As far as the odors, under the 134 performance standards in Section 6.4….. 135 136 Michael Harvey: In Section 6.4 there is air pollution, but not odor per say. There are statutory limitations and 137 protections granted to farmers with respect to odors, limiting them from being classified as a nuisance and limiting 138 adjoining property owners to sue under a nuisance provision under the general statute. 139 140 Lydia Wegman: Are there any restrictions on ag odors? 141 142 Michael Harvey: There are certain restrictions. Certain farm operations are provided, as defined by state statutes, 143 an exemption from being sued as a nuisance case. 144 145 Lydia Wegman: About the 100 foot setback, one of the slides talked about reducing the setback if there is an existing 146 farm building so that 100 foot could potentially be reduced so there is no guarantee of 100 feet between the 147 processing facility and the adjoining property. 148 149 Tony Blake: Would the definition of processing be extended to slaughter? 150 151 Perdita Holtz: If it’s a meat processing facility, yes. If it’s agriculture processing not including animals it is just an 152 agricultural processing facility. 153 154 Lydia Wegman: When does the Agricultural Preservation Board get involved? 155 156 Perdita Holtz: Their involvement is outlined on pages 22, 23, and 24. 157 158 Lydia Wegman: The reference in Section 2.5.4(C)(1)(b) is just definitional, it is not limited? 159 160 Perdita Holtz: Correct. 161 162