12.31.020 A-2 general agricultural district.
(a) Primary purpose and characteristics.
The A-2 General Agricultural District is intended to provide for, maintain, preserve, and enhance agricultural lands historically utilized for crop production but which are not included within the A-1 Agricultural Preservation District and which are generally best suited for smaller farm units, including truck farming, horse farming, hobby farming, orchards, and other similar agricultural related farming activity. This District is also intended to provide areas for activities normally associated with rural surroundings, such as rural estate and other existing residential development, such as existing residential development abutting town and county roads along which further development may occur as essential services become available.
It is recognized that it is neither possible nor practicable to list all of the principal and accessory uses that are compatible with those listed below and therefore it is intended that the following list of principal and accessory uses only be illustrative. Any individual aggrieved by a failure to list a particular principal or accessory use in this subsection shall have the right to file a petition with the Kenosha County Department of Planning and Development pursuant to section 12.55 of this ordinance for a determination as to the similarity of the intended use with the principal and accessory uses listed below.
(b) Principal Uses.
In addition to those principal uses permitted in the A-1 Agricultural Preservation District, the following are deemed to be principal uses in the A-2 General Agricultural District:
1. (Reserved for future use) (8/6/02)
2. Community living arrangements having a capacity of 8 or fewer persons and which shall be in conformance with all state statutory requirements
3. Equestrian trails
4. Foster family homes having less than four foster children and not exceeding 8 total occupants and are in conformance with all state statutory requirements
5. (Reserved for future use) (8/6/02)
(c) Accessory Uses
1. Those accessory uses permitted in the A-1 Agricultural Preservation District
2. Small wind energy system
3. Solar energy system
(d) Conditional Uses. (See also section 12.40.080 of the Municipal Code of Kenosha County.) (8/6/02)
1. Airstrips, landing fields and hangars for personal or agricultural related uses.
2. Assemblies over 5,000 or more individuals.
3. Community living arrangements having nine but not more than 15 persons and in conformance with all State statutory requirements.
4. Concrete and asphalt batch plant temporarily located on a parcel.
5. Event barns.
6. Housing for farm laborers or caretakers.
7. Kennels (commercial or noncommercial).
8. Large wind energy systems.
9. Storage of recreational vehicles, boats and snowmobiles.
10. Utility substations.
11. Bed and breakfast establishments. (8/9/94)
12. Borrow pits (temporary); stockpiling or filling of clean fill materials.
13. Riding stables and indoor riding arenas (public).
14. Solar farms.
1. Parcels shall have a minimum area of ten (10) acres, and
2. All such parcels shall have a frontage of not less than 300 feet in width.
1. No farm building or farm related building shall exceed 100 feet in height
2. No residential dwelling shall exceed 35 feet in height
3. The total minimum floor area of a residential dwelling shall be 1000 square feet with a minimum first floor area of 1000 square feet
4. All residential dwellings shall be attached to a permanent foundation, be properly connected to all required utilities, have a building footprint of which the dwelling unit is not less than 24-feet in width for at least fifty (50) percent of the length, have a roof pitch of not less than 5/12, and an eave extension of at least twelve (12) inches, except residences with an architectural style defined as Colonial or Greek Revival. (9/5/06)
(g) Yards
1. Street yard - not less than 65 feet from the right-of-way of all Federal, State, and County Trunk highways and not less than 40 feet from the right-of-way of all other roads (8/6/02)
2. Shore yard - not less than 75 feet from the ordinary high water mark of any navigable water (11/5/86)
3. Side yard - not less than 25 feet in width on each side of all structures
4. Rear yard - not less than 50 feet
(h) Authorized Sanitary Sewer System
2. Public sanitary sewer [Ord. 6 (2022); Code § 12.20-2.]