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The Suitability of ASE-CD Zoning <br />The principal function of the Treeist is to provide urban forestry services to our community. <br />Since urban forestry is a subfield of forestry, which itself is a subfield of agriculture, the principal <br />function of the Treeist is a specialized form of agricultural services. More particularly, we engage <br />in agricultural services when we create management plans for the trees of local landowners and <br />when we prune, treat, or remove trees in privately-owned wooded yards and parcels. When we <br />haul away logs and wood chips and stage them at our property for further transport, we are <br />handling agricultural products (NC General Statutes,20-88(b)(2)), many of which will be used <br />for farming or other agricultural purposes. <br />1 Our other intended uses for our property properly <br />count as “accessory uses” that are “incidental or insubstantial” and are “ancillary to the <br />established principal use” of our urban forestry services (UDO definitions p.10-1). These <br />accessory uses include training our employees, servicing our machinery, parking for employees <br />and work trucks, accommodating our clerical staff, housing a property caretaker, and hosting a <br />variety of tree-related educational events and activities for the community. <br />The purpose of ASE-CD zoning is “to provide for agriculturally-related activities that are not <br />considered bonafide farming activities within the County’s planning jurisdiction.” Agricultural <br />services, our principal intended use for this property, is a permitted Use Type in ASE-CD (UDO, <br />p.5-3). <br />1 As discussed in our Detailed Narrative (section 2, pp. 3-6), the salvaging of sawlog supports local <br />sawmills, enhancing local markets for lumber products on a smaller scale conducive to Orange County <br />properties. Our wood chips themselves are often delivered to local farms for use as mulch and organic <br />matter. <br />1 <br />43