Board approves UDO amendments with two items tabled: poultry classification and foundation-survey trigger

Staff reviewed multiple amendments to the county’s Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) and recommended approval of the packet with two exceptions the board agreed to table for further drafting. Changes presented included restoring previously omitted permitted uses (commercial poultry/livestock references were added back into the permitted-use chart and definitions), clarifying MHU/manufactured-home provisions to limit some placements to agricultural zoning with a 5-acre minimum, prohibiting cryptocurrency mining as a residential home occupation, fixing sign-permitted uses (explicitly adding digital signs back to Light Commercial/LC), and standardizing public-notice windows to state law (15–45 days) with specific sign-size rules for rezoning/special-use notices.

Board members debated whether foundation surveys should remain discretionary (“may”) or be required (“shall”) in specific circumstances and whether commercial poultry should be allowed in agricultural zoning; industry feedback prompted staff to keep the foundation-survey clause as a discretionary 'may' and to propose returning later with clearer triggers. Public commenter Kathy Knight urged broader use of foundation and property-line surveys and asked staff to reconsider manufactured-housing acreage thresholds for affordability. The board made a motion to approve the text amendments while tabling the foundation-survey and poultry classification items; the motion carried.