HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 05221984 - 1.26 ORDINANCE NO. 84- 24
(Wind Energy Conversion Systems in Agricultural Districts )
The Contra Cos.ta .County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows
(omitting the parenthetical footnotes from the official text of
the enacted and amended provisions of the County Ordinance Code) :
SECTION_ I . Section 82-4. 281 is added to the Ordinance Code, to
define "wind energy conversion system" , to read :
82-4_281 . Wind_Energy_Con_version_System. "Wind energy con-
version system"-means a machine that converts the kinetic energy
in the wind into a usable form, and includes all parts of such a
system.
(Ord. 84- 24 S1 . )
SECTION II . Section 84-36. 404 is amended, to add a subsection (6 )
under subdivision (b) , to require that a land use permit be
obtained for non-accessory wind energy conversion systems in A-1
Light Agricultural , A-2 General .Agricultural , and A-3 Heavy
Agricultural Districts-, to read:
84_36 . 404 Uses_with_land_use_permit .
(a) In an A-1 district , a land use permit may allow the
following uses .
(b) Allowable uses are :
(1 ) Home occupations ;
(2 ) Publicly owned parks and playgrounds ;
(3) Dude ranches , riding academies and stables , and dog
kennels ;
(4) Publicly owned buildings and structures , except as
provided in Division 82 ; -
(5) Commercial radio and television receiving and
transmitting facilities .but not including broadcasting studios or
business offices ;
(6) Wind energy conversion systems , except when used
only as an accessory to an allowable residential or agricultural
use .
( c) Other allowable uses are :
(1 ) Hospitals , animal hospitals , eleemosynary and phi-
lanthropic institutions , and convalescent homes ,-
(2)
omes ;(2) Churches , religious institutions , and parochial and
private schools , including nursery schools ;
(3) . Community buildings , clubs , and activities of a
quasi -public, social, fraternal , or recreational character , such
as : golf , tennis , and swimming clubs , and veterans ' and fraternal
organizations, not organized for monetary profit ; these uses are
allowed only where not organized for monetary profit ;
(4) More than one detached dwelling unit on a lot or
parcel of land;
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(5) Medical and dental offices and medical clinics .
(Ords . 84- 24 52 , 74-37 S1 , 1569 52 : prior code S8155 (b) :
Ords . 1406 Y2 , 705 §4 [382 54(P) ] . )
SE_CTIO_N III . Section 84-42 .404 is amended, to add a subdivision
to restate the requirement that a land use permit be
obtained for non-accessory wind energy conversion systems in A-4
Agricultural Preserve Districts , to read :
84-42 . 4_04 Uses -_Reguiring_land_use_permit_ In the A-4
district the following uses are permitted on the issuance of a
land use permit :
(1) Related commercial agricultural uses including the erec-
tion or modification of sheds , warehouses , granaries , hullers ,
dryers , fruit and vegetable packing, and buildings for the storage
of agricultural products and equipment ;
(2) A stand not exceeding four hundred square feet for the
sale of agricultural products grown on the premises , if the stand
is set back at least twenty-five feet from the front property
line;
(3) Residence' of the owner , owners , lessee, or lessor of the
land on which the use is conducted . In no event shall any resi-
dential structure be...permitted to be built or additional residen-
tial• structure be erected on less- than twenty acres per unit ;
(4) Oil and gas drilling and production including the
installation and use of only such equipment , structures and faci-
lities as are necessary and convenient for drilling and extracting
operations ;
(5) A home occupation;
(6) Nurseries and greenhouses ;
(7) Hog ranches ;
(8) Dairying;
(9) Fur farms ;
(10 ) Livestock and feed yards ;.
(11 ) Poultry raising;
(1.2 ) Commercial fish farming;
(13) Wineries and facilities for processing of all agri-
cultural products produced on the premises ;
(14) Living accommodations for agricultural workers employed
on the property of the owner ;
(15 ) Mushroom houses ;
(16 ) Commercial radio and television receiving and
transmitting facilities but not including broadcasting studios or
business offices ;
(17 ) Those uses described in Section 51201 ( e) of the
Government . Code;
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(18 ) Wind energy conversion systems , except when used only as
an accessory to an allowable residential or agricultural use .
(Ords . 84- 24_ §3 , 68-54 §1 (part ) , 1968 : prior code §8169 (b) . )
SECTION IV. Section 84-80 .404 is amended , to add subdivision
1 )
Z2 , to require that a land use permit be obtained for non-
accessory wind energy conversion systems in A-20 , A-40 and A-80
Exclusive Agricultural Districts , to read :
84-80_404 Uses_with_land_use_permit_ The following uses are
allowable on the issuance of a�land use permit :
(1 ) Merchandising of agricultural supplies and services inei-
dential to agricultural use;
(2) Canneries , wineries , and processing of agricultural
products ;
(3 ) Cold storge plants ; -
. (4) Slaughterhouses and stockyards ;
( 5 ) Rendering plants and fertilizer plants or yards ;
( 6) Livestock auction or sales yards ;
(7 ) Living accommodations for agricultural workers employed
on the premises ;
(8) Home occupation;
(9) Nurseries and greenhouses ;
(10) Mushroom houses ;
(11 ) ' Processing of milk not produced on premises ;
(12) Dude ranches , riding academies , stables , dog kennels ;
(13 ) Hospitals , eleemosynary and philanthropic institutions ,
convalescent homes, and animal hospitals ;
(14) Churches , religious institutions , parochial and private
.shcools , including nursery schools ;
(15 ) Community buildings , clubs , activities of a quasi -
public, social , fraternal or recreational character ;
(16 ) Medical and/or dental offices and clinics;
(17 ) Boat storage area within one mile by public road of a
public boat launching facility;
(18 ) Oil and gas drilling and production including the
installation and use of only such equipment necessary and con-
venient for drilling and extracting operations ;
(19 ) Commercial radio and television receiving and
transmitting facilities other than broadcasting studios and busi-
ness offices ;
(20 ) One additional single-family dwelling for members of the
family within the third degree of consanguinity .
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(21 ) Wind energy conversion systems , except when used only as
an accessory to an allowable residential or agricultural use.
(Ords . 84-_24 §4 , 79-108 . )
SECTION V. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30
days after passage, and within 15 days of passage shall be
published once with the names of supervisors voting for and
against it in the. ANTIOCH DAILY LEDGER a newspaper
published in this County.
PASSED and ADOPTED on _May 22, 1984_________, by the following
vote :
AYES: Supervisors - Powers, Fanden, Schroder, McPeak, Torlakson.
NOES : Supervisors - None.
ABSENT: Supervisors - None.
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Chairman of the Board of
Supervisors
ATTEST: J. R. OLSSON, County Clerk
& ex officio lerk of the Board
Bya1 ---
Deputy [SEAL]
Diana M. Herman
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