§ 603. Conditional uses.

1.

Boarding homes, dormitories, lodging houses, and mobile homes and manufactured homes for agricultural workers, provided such dwellings are located on a farm with a minimum size of 20 acres in active agricultural production, provision is made to meet all applicable public health requirements, and provided such lodging is intended only for the temporary or seasonal housing of farm workers.

2.

Reserved.

3.

Campgrounds for not more than ten spaces for vehicles (recreational vehicles and campers). If approved as a conditional use, campgrounds with not more than ten spaces shall not have to comply with Chapters 50 and 51 of the Code of Banks County. In addition, there must be 20 contiguous acres of land to qualify for a conditional use.

4.

Commercial cemeteries.

5.

Churches, temples, synagogues, places of worship, clubs, lodges, fraternal institutions and other places of assembly for nonprofit membership groups located on less than five acres of land.

6.

Nurseries and greenhouses for the growth and sale of plants, trees and shrubs (wholesale and retail) provided that any structure housing the plants, trees and shrubs shall be at least 100 feet from all property lines.

7.

Reserved.

8.

Schools, parochial or private, offering courses in general education not operated for profit.

9.

Barns, kennels and/or other structures which house small numbers of animals that are not being raised for commercial purposes except for isolated sales not in the ordinary course of business, including, without limitation, poultry, livestock, horses, goats, sheep, mules, dogs, cats, and donkeys, located closer than 50 feet from any adjacent property line.

10.

Any place that regularly breeds, boards, trains, buys, sells, trades or lets for hire any horse, donkey, burro or mule, provided that no structure or corral housing such animals is located closer than 400 feet from an existing dwelling other than that of the property owner and 200 feet from any adjacent property line.

11.

Schools, public elementary, middle and secondary, and public and private colleges and universities located on less than five acres of land.

12.

Agricultural uses (excluding animal waste lagoons), including forestry, livestock (except dairies, hog parlors, and feed lots), and poultry [except turkey ranges and commercial egg operations (caged layers)], provided that no structure housing poultry or other livestock as permitted herein or containing manure or other dust-producing substances is located closer than 400 feet from an existing dwelling unit other than that of the property owner and 200 feet from any common property line. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the structures located on the land housing the poultry or livestock shall not exceed the lesser of 83,200 square feet or ten percent of the land area.

13.

Commercial kennels, if such structures shall be located closer than 400 feet from any adjacent property line and/or closer than 800 feet from any residence on adjacent property.

(Res. No. 98-22, § 1(603), 12-9-1998; Ord. No. 2002-13, § 6, 7-9-2002; Ord. No. 2003-35, § 3, 11-11-2003; Ord. No. 2004-18, § 5, 7-13-2004; Ord. No. 2005-29, § 2, 9-13-2005; Ord. No. 2015-12 , § 3, 7-14-2015)