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activities listed above, including residences for the owners, operators or employees of the farm <br />and their families. General livestock and poultry includes those animals involved which are <br />customarily and traditionally.. raised on farms, such as beef and dairy cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, <br />rabbits and horses, mules, ponies, chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese for the purpose listed <br />above. Farming does not include agricultural services and processing, avocational farming, <br />specialized commercial horticulture, and specialized commercial animal husbandry. <br />Farm, Bonafide - The use of land for farming meeting one of the following criteria: <br />(1) composing two or more acres on one or more tracts owned or leased by the bonafide farm <br />unit; <br />(2) average annual sales of $1,000 for the preceding three years; or a minimum of twenty of <br />forest land for which a management plan has been prepared. <br />Farming Definitions - (See Farming, Avocational Farming, Specialized Horticulture, <br />Specialized Animal Husbandry, Commercial Feeder Operation, etc.) <br />Amended Flag Lot - An irregularly shaped lot where the buildable portion of the lot is <br />7/5/88 connected to its street frontage by an arm of the lot (see Figures 1 to 4 on page 33c of the <br />Subdivision Regulations). <br />Amended Flexible Development - A subdivision in which greater flexibility and design <br />7 -1 -96 creativity is encouraged and allowed to preserve agricultural and forestry lands, natural and <br />cultural features, and rural community character that might otherwise be lost through <br />development approaches. At lease one -third (33 %) of the land within a Flexible Development <br />subdivision must be set aside as open space which may be preserved through: <br />(a) An "estate lot" approach where all land is subdivided into lots four (4) acres or greater in <br />size, building limits (50 %) are established for each lot, and the land area outside such limits <br />is preserved as open space; or <br />(b) a "conservation" approach where all land is subdivided into lots, and open space is preserved <br />through the use of conservation easements applied to portions of individual lots; or <br />(c) A "cluster" approach where lot sizes are reduced and the land saved through such reductions <br />is preserved as open space; or <br />(d) A "village" or modified cluster approach where dwelling units are clustered around a village <br />green and supporting shops, and the village is surrounded by open space; or <br />IM <br />REM <br />