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Madison County pauses proposed livestock-definition change amid concerns over setbacks and auction provisions
Summary
Planning and zoning raised concerns that revising the county efinition of "livestock" could allow livestock-sales pavilions without appropriate setback or conditional-use limits; P&Z recommended delaying a final change while staff drafts conditions for sales/auction provisions.
Madison County commissioners and Planning & Zoning (P&Z) members spent extended time on Sept. 8 discussing a proposed amendment to Article 3 of the county zoning code that would revise the definition of "livestock".
Planning staff reported the P&Z board voted 4-1 to recommend delaying action on the definition change and urged the county to add conditions to the livestock-sales provisions (section cited in the discussion as 7.101.08) before altering the definition. Commissioners and staff said the concern is that changing the definition — for example, to explicitly include poultry — without placing setback or other conditions on livestock sales or auction pavilions…
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