 SECTION 503 AG - T TRANSITIONAL AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT
503.01 INTENT: The intent of this district is to preserve land for and encourage residential, commercial and industrial developments in a compatible relationship to each other and the agricultural uses around the incorporated municipalities in the County and provide protection of these urban areas from encroachment of incompatible land uses while allowing agricultural uses which will not negatively impact non-agricultural uses in the zoning district or these urban areas around which this zoning district is applied.
503.02 OUTRIGHT ALLOWABLE PRINCIPAL USES AND STRUCTURES: The following uses and structures shall be allowable uses outright. Such uses and structures shall comply with the minimum lot area, setback and other requirements of this Resolution, but such uses and structures shall not require a written zoning permit or certificate of zoning compliance:
1. Agricultural uses, as defined in Section 303.04 of this Resolution, including any farm buildings, as defined in Section 303.33 of this Resolution, but excluding any dwelling unit(s) whether or not associated with an agricultural use and excluding confined and intensive animal feeding uses, as defined in Sections 303.23 and 303.45 of this Resolution.
2. Grain and produce storage including non-commercial storage warehouses and plant seed sales and storage facilities.
3. Irrigation facilities, including wells, center pivots, re-use pits, well houses and related structures, flood control and erosion control facilities. (Irrigation facilities used as part of a waste handling facility shall be subject to the setback restrictions for such uses, as specified in Section 501.03 and 501.05 of this Resolution.)
4. Forestry, tree farms and plant nurseries.
5. Signs, including permanent on-site and outdoor advertising signs, provided the number of such permanent on-site signs shall not exceed three (3) per premises and that permanent outdoor advertising signs shall be located no closer than one-eighth (1/8) mile to any other on-site or outdoor advertising sign. Temporary signs, including but not limited to farm / ranch identification signs, crop seed and similar signs, signs, yard sale, real estate for sale or tease signs, political campaign signs, and traffic safety and road number signs installed by governmental entities shall be exempt from regulation. (All permanent signs along federal and state highways are subject to the permit requirements of the Nebraska Department of Roads).
6. Day care and child care uses, when conducted in a residential dwelling unit by the occupants of such residential dwelling unit.
503.03 PERMITTED PRINCIPAL LAND USES AND STRUCTURES: The following uses and Structures shall be permitted uses, but shall require the issuance of a zoning permit and / or certificate of zoning compliance:
1. Public, parochial, private non-religious, schools.
2. Road maintenance equipment sheds, fire stations, public utility substations and utility distribution systems and similar structures and uses.
3. Churches, cemeteries and related uses.
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