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County staff to initiate agricultural-exemption text amendment after supervisors’ questions
Summary
Planning staff said they will move to align the county’s planning-and-zoning agricultural-exemption language with state statute. Supervisors and the assessor raised questions about how the exemption would interact with property tax classification and with structures such as greenhouses and equine facilities.
Planning staff asked supervisors for direction to initiate a text amendment to the county zoning ordinance that would align the county’s agricultural-exemption language with state statutes.
Planner B.J. Ratliff told the joint session that the county’s current ordinance conditionally requires agriculture to be a property’s primary use and requires applicants to obtain assessor tax status before a planning exemption. Ratliff said the proposal would allow incidental agricultural uses to qualify for the regulatory exemption and remove the requirement that assessor tax status be obtained before seeking the planning exemption.
Nut graf: The proposal is procedural and aims to make the county’s regulatory exemption consistent with state statute; however…
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