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dinance already specifies that a new land use may not be detrimental to adjacent farming, horticultural or forestal operations.
But Mr. Baumgardner asked the board to go even further in recognizing agriculture’s importance “by holding agricultural uses to a lesser standard as to their impact on adjacent property,” particularly when that adjacent property is in residential or commercial use in an agriculture or conservation zone. Then an agricultural use should be “deemed to have no adverse effect” on the adjoining property, he said.
Taking a “worst case” scenario, Supervisor Estes asked what would happen with a permit for a hog farm next to a residential development. “That hog farm would get preferential treatment under your amendment.”
Mr. Baumgardner pointed out that hog farms are allowed by right in agriculturally zoned land, under both the old and new ordinance. If a landowner chooses to build a residence in an agricultural zone, “he’s got to take the risk that people are going to be farming,” he added.
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