Zoned Residential, A-1, Unincorporated DeKalb County
Permitted Land Uses and Developments: The following uses of land are permitted in this district:
1. Agriculture.
2. Conservation area for fauna, flora, including a caretaker’s residence on a minimum lot size of 40 acres or more.
3. Farm.
4. Farm buildings.
5. Farm drainage and irrigation systems.
6. Farm dwelling.
7. Game breeding and hunting preserve.
8. Game refuge.
9. Grazing and forage.
10. Historic sites and structures.
11. Nursery, plant.
12. Roadside stands and small-scale agritainment, such as “u-pick” orchards and gardens, with not more than six hundred (600) square feet of gross floor area, including outdoor display, and set back from the right-of-way at least fifty (50) feet, and with off-street parking for a minimum of five (5) cars, or one space for each fifty (50) square feet of structure, whichever is greater. Sales shall be limited to products grown or produced on the premises and branded products bearing the name/logo of the farm, or farm-related business, on which the roadside stand is located.
13. Stable, private.
14. Transmission and distribution lines and pipelines of public utility companies within existing public rights-of-way.
15. Tree, sod farms.
C. Special Land Uses and Developments:
1. The following uses of land and structures may be permitted upon the issuance of a special use permit in accordance with the procedures and standards contained in Article 9, Special Procedures:
a. Agribusiness, when the petitioner has proven that the business activity is directly and primarily used by those actively engaged in the pursuit of agricultural activities; that, at the time of the hearing, all local, state, and federal regulations will be complied with; and that the proposed agribusiness must be located in unincorporated DeKalb County.
b. Aircraft hangar/tiedown.
c. Aircraft service and repair.
d. Airstrip/runway, and heliport.
e. Animal foster home, provided that the animal foster home is located on a lot of not less than two acres in size.
f. Animal hospital.
g. Animal shelter.
h. Asphalt or concrete batch mix plant.
i. Church.
j. Cemetery.
k. Day care home.
l. Earth removal, quarrying, aggregate processing, mining and related mineral extraction business.
m. Essential service structure including, but not limited to: any new rights-of-way across farm land, telephone exchange or repeater buildings and towers, electrical station and substation buildings, gas regulator stations and regulator buildings as well as other structures and buildings related to essential or public services.
n. Fairgrounds.
o. Government building.
p. Gun club.
q. Home occupation.
r. Kennel.
s. Landscaping business, provided that all vehicles, equipment and materials associated with a landscaping business shall be stored entirely within an enclosed structure, unless otherwise permitted under the terms of a Special Use Permit.
t. Production of sweet cider, hard cider, beer, spirits, and wine (with regard to the above containing alcoholic content, not less than fifty percent (50%) of the primary source ingredients shall come from crops grown on the same property where such production may take place), and the tasting and/or consumption, and sale thereof at wholesale or retail. In the event of conditions of catastrophic crop loss or necessity, holders of such a special use permit may seek exemption by petition of the fifty percent (50%) requirement referred above, with the approval of the Community Development Director.
u. Radio, television and communication transmitting or relay towers, antennae and other such facility, not to exceed two hundred (200) feet above the average finished ground elevation at the perimeter of such structure, provided, however, that an FCC-approved tower that is determined to be no hazard to air navigation by the FAA may be constructed to a maximum height of 399 feet above the finished ground elevation at the base of the structure, and further provided that the base of the structure shall be located at a distance from a public road equal to at least ninety percent (90%) of the height of the tower.
v. Recreational camp.
w. Retail and service use conducted within and immediately adjacent to existing agricultural structures that are no longer used for agricultural purposes, provided such uses are clearly compatible with and subordinate to agricultural uses in the surrounding area, and further provided such uses have the effect of preserving the agricultural buildings in and around which they are conducted.
x. Roadside stand and large-scale agritainment, including but not limited to: “upick” orchards and gardens, corn mazes, hay rides, hobby farms and other activities intended to attract paying customers to a farm, set back from the right of-way at least fifty (50) feet, with off-street parking for a minimum of five (5) cars or one (1) space for each fifty (50) square feet of structure, whichever is greater.
y. Sanitary landfill, and other means of solid waste management.
z. Shooting ranges
aa. Solar farms and solar gardens
bb. Stable, public, which may include riding lessons.
cc. Tree service and firewood sales.
dd. Wind Energy Conversion Systems
