ORC minutes 100213 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

Approved 11/6/13 5 Michael Harvey: The acreage requirement was only based on complying with the bona fide farm tax program. 215 216 Paul Guthrie: If the actual crop, what the central farm managed, planted, and prepared the soil for the crop on is on 217 somebody else’s land, could they use it under the definition? 218 219 Perdita Holtz: That noncontiguous parcel is normally considered part of the bona fide farm. Where it comes into play about 220 being off the farm is if you have another bona fide farm that wants to come back and sell products like in a farm store. 221 222 Perdita Holtz: (Continued review of item) 223 224 Pete Hallenbeck: What does the metal fabrication shop fit in under? 225 226 Perdita Holtz: That’s one of the more interesting things that was part of the previous work, metal fabrication shop would 227 normally fit under the Light Industrial zoning use category and a lot of these uses would have fit under umbrella uses that 228 appear in our zoning ordinance. Part of the problem is that people were saying we want to see these uses exactly in the 229 zoning code and so we went ahead and put them in the zoning code because there is no harm in doing so other than you 230 might end up with a whole bunch of pages in your table of permitted uses if you were to list every single possible use ever. 231 There is an effort to help the farmers and so we are doing that. There was apparently one farmer that does metal fabrication 232 on the side and so I think that is one of the reasons that ended up as we do to have this defined. 233 234 Pete Hallenbeck: So this is metal fabrication shop as in blacksmithing, making rod iron, and fixing large tractor things that 235 need lots of welding because of those two. 236 237 Perdita Holtz: Metal fabrication shop is the facility that is engaged in the shaping of metal or similar materials for wholesale or 238 retail trade. One of the standards for metal fabrication shop is that if it is located in an AR zoning district is that it has to be 239 located on a bona fide farm so the standard gets very important because some of these uses would only be allowed in those 240 zoning districts if they are located on a bona fide farm. 241 242 Pete Hallenbeck: There are things that require not a site plan but a plot plan and there may some interesting discussion about 243 exactly that the terms are. 244 245 Lisa Stuckey: What’s a nonfarm use of farm equipment, like tractor ride? 246 247 Perdita Holtz: That’s like a farmer using his tractor to grading work during the off season. 248 249 Lisa Stuckey: So what is the plot plan going to show? 250 251 Perdita Holtz: It is actually on page the page beforehand, of all the specifications of a plot plan. It is going to show pr operty 252 lines. This is more for someone doing landscaping or grading type of activities off the farm. 253 254 Michael Harvey: To give you an example, we were dealing with a farmer that actually rented out equipment to be used either 255 in landscaping, grading, and also did septic tank work on the side and he had equipment. As all the equipment had a farm 256 application, legally as I interpret the statute there wasn’t much we could do. We required him to give us a plot plan showing 257 where it was parked, where any activity that was not farm related occurred and that there was any necessary infrastructure to 258 support this ancillary business. This project has gone back to 2001, this is one of the genesis for this nonfarm use of farm 259 equipment was this particular farmer and others who had similar relationships with people. 260 261 Perdita Holtz: On the plot plan, there are standards they have to meet. One of them is that they have to screen the 262 equipment from adjacent property and roads and outdoor storage of material such as gravel, dirt, plants shall be limited in 263 growth, area, and duration. There are a couple of others so they would have to show on the plot plan where equipment is 264 being stored and how they are going to achieve the screening and where their outdoor storage and materials is going to take 265 place. 266 267