HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 05062003 - C45-C46 ORDINANCE NO. 2003-11
AGRICULTURAL,DISTRICTS
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows(omitting the parenthetical footnotes
from the official text of the enacted or amended provisions of the County Ordinance Code):
SECTION I. SUMMARY. This ordinance repeals Chapter 84-36 of the County Ordinance Code
(A-1 Light Agricultural District)in its entirety. This ordinance also amends sections of Chapter 84-38
(A-2 General Agricultural District)and Chapter 84-40(A-3 Heavy Agricultural District)to remove
references to the A-I district and to clarify that most uses requiring a land use permit under repealed
Chapter 84-36 also require a land use permit under Chapter 84-38 and Chapter 8440.
SECTION II. Chapter 84-36 of the County Ordinance Code is repealed in its entirety.
SECTION III. Section 84-38.404 of the County Ordinance Code is amended to read.:
84-38.404 Uses with land use permit.
The following uses may be allowed in an A-2 district on the issuance of a land use permit:
(1) Home occupations.
(2) Publicly owned parks and playground.
(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. This use is allowed without a land use permit if used only as
an accessory to an allowable residential or agricultural use:
(7) A family care home where care,protection and supervision of thirteen or more children in the
provider's own home are provided for periods of less than twenty-four hours per day,while the
parents or guardians are away.
(8) Hospitals, animal hospitals,eleemosynary and philanthropic institutions,and convalescent
homes.
(9) Churches,religious institutions, and parochial and private schools, including nursery schools.
(10) Community buildings,clubs,and activities of a quasi-public,social,fraternal,or recreational
character,such as golf,tennis or swimming clubs,or veterans' or fraternal organizations. These
uses are prohibited if organized for monetary profit.
(11) One additional single family dwelling.
(12) .Medical and dental offices and medical clinics.
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(13) Merchandising of agricultural supplies.and services incidental to an agricultural use.
(14) Canneries,wineries and processing of agricultural products and buildings for the storage of
agricultural products on parcels less than ten acres in size.
(I5) Slaughterhouses and stockyards.
(16) Rendering plants and fertilizer plants or yards.
(17) Livestock auction or sales yards.
(18) Living accommodations for agricultural workers to be primarily used for temporary housing of
agricultural workers while performing seasonal agricultural work on the owner's property.
(19) Commercial recreational facilities when the principal use is not in a building.
(20) Boat storage areas within one mile by public road of a boat launching facility open to the public.
(21) Retail firewood sales.
(22) Recycling operations intended to sort or process material for reuse. Junkyards,defined in
Section 88-4.206, are prohibited.
(23) Museums in which objects of historical, artistic, scientific or cultural importance are preserved
and displayed. (Orris. 2003-11 § 3, 94-28 § 2, 8946 § 2, 76-36 § 3, 7437 § 2, 60-82,
1988, 1569 § 2:prior code § 8156(b): Ords. 1406 § 3,497 §4,382 §4E).
SECTION IV. Section 84-38.802 of the County Ordinance Code is amended to read:
84-38.902 Building height—Maximum.
No structure or building permitted in an A-2 district shall exceed two and one-half stories or 35 feet in
height,whichever is greater. (Orris. 2003-11 § 4,Ord. 1569: Ord. 1555:prior code § 8156(f): Ord.
1406.)
SECTION V. Section 84-38.1004 of the County Ordinance Code is amended to read:
84-38.1404 Yard—Setback.
Any structure in the A-2 district shall have a setback(front yard)of at least 25 feet except on comer
lots,where the principal frontage of the lot shall have a setback of at least 25 feet and the other
setback',shall be at least 20 feet. (Ords. 2003-11 § 5,Ord. 1569: Ord. 1555:prior code § 8156(g):
Ord. 1406.)
SECTION VI. Section 84-40.404 of the County Ordinance Code is amended to read:
8440A04 Uses with land use permit.
The following uses may be allowed in an A-3 district on the issuance of a land use permit:
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(1) All allowed uses listed in Section 84-38.404, except for livestock auction or sales yards.
(2) Processing of milk not produced on the premises. (Ords. 2003-11 § 6,94.28 § 3,74-37 § 3,
1569 §24, 1535 §4;prior code § 8157(b): Ords. 1241 §2 [382 §4(X)]).
SECTION VII. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30 days after passage,and
within 15 days after passage shall be published once with the names of supervisors voting for or
against it in the Contra Costa Times,a newspaper published in this County.
May 6, 2003
PASSED on ,by the following vote:
AYES: SUPERVISORS GIOIA, UILKEMA, GLOVER & DeSAULINER
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
DISTRICT III IS VACANT ^ c
ATTEST: JOHN SWEETEN,
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ORDINANCE NO.2003-12
(MODIFYING COUNTY ORDINANCE CODE CHAPTER 84-42,AGRICULTURAL
PRESERVE DISTRICT(A-4), AND COUNTY ORDINANCE CODE CHAPTER 810-2,
AGRICULTURAL PRESERVES,TO CONFORM TO STATE LAW
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa ordains as follows(omitting the
parenthetical footnotes from the official text of the enacted and amended provision of the County
Ordinance Code):
SECTION I. PURPOSE.This ordinance amends County Ordinance Code Chapter 84-42,
Agricultural Preserve District, and Chapter 810-2, Agricultural Preserves,to conform certain.
requirements of said chapters to State Law(California Land Conservation Act of 1965,Title 5,
Division 1,Chapter 7, Sections 51200-51297.4).
SECTION II. Section 84-42.404 of the County Ordinance Code is amended,to amend the
minimum parcel size in subdivision(3),to read:
8442.444 Uses—Requiring 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 erection 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 residential structure be permitted to be built or
additional residential structure be erected on less than forty(40)acres per unit for non-
prime agricultural land,or less than ten(10)acres per unit of prime agricultural land.
(4) A home occupation;
(5) Nurseries and greenhouses;
(6) Hog ranches;
(7) Dairying;
(8) Fur farms;
(9) Livestock and feed yards;
(10) Poultry raising;
(11) Commercial fish farming;
(12) Wineries and facilities for processing of all agricultural products produced on
the premises;
(13) Living accommodations for agricultural workers employed on the property of
the owner;
(14) Mushroom houses;
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(15) Commercial radio and television receiving and transmitting facilities but not
including broadcasting studios or business offices;
(16) Those uses described in Section 51201(e)of Government Code;
(17) Wind energy conversion systems, except when used only as an accessory to
an allowable residential or agricultural use. (Ords. 2003-12 § 2,86-61 § 3, 84-24 § 3, 68-
54 § 1 (part), 1968:prior code§ 8169(b).)
SECTION III. Section 84-42.602 of the County Ordinance Code is amended,to conform parcel
size requirements to Government Code section 51222,to read:
Section 8442.602 Parcel size. Unless otherwise permitted in accordance with
Section 84-42.402 (2),no structure permitted in this district shall be placed or erected
upon a parcel smaller than forty(40) acres of non-prime agricultural land,or upon a parcel
smaller than ten(10) acres of prime agricultural land, where the parcel size otherwise
meets the minimum density for the General Plan land use designation. As used in this
chapter,prime agricultural land has the meaning ascribed to it in section 810-2.407. (Gov.
Code, § 51222; Ords. 2003-12, § 3, 68-54 § 1 (part), 1968:prior code§ 8169(c).)
SECTION IV. Section 810-2.404 of the County Ordinance Code is amended,to conform its
requirements to Government Code section 51230,to read:
810-2.404 Standards—Minimum acreage. Except as provided in subdivisions
(a)and(b),no agricultural preserve shall be established having less than one hundred
(100) contiguous acres.
(a)Agricultural preserves of less than one hundred(100)contiguous acres may be
established if the Board finds that an agricultural preserve of less than one hundred(100)
acres is necessary due to the unique characteristics of the agricultural enterprise in that
area and that the establishment of preserves of less than one hundred(100) acres is
consistent with the General Plan.
(b)Agricultural Preserves of thirty-five(35)contiguous acres may be established
in the areas of the East Contra Costa and Byron-Bethany Irrigation Districts,as previously
established by the Board of Supervisors. (Gov.Code, § 51230;Ords.2003-12 §4,72-58
§ 1,69-76 § 1 (part),69-49 § 1 (part),68-53.)
SECTION V. Section 810-2.406 of the County Ordinance Code is amended,to conform its
requirements to Government Code section 51222,to read:
810-2.406 Standards Minimum parcel. No parcel of land of less than forty
(40)acres of non-prime agricultural land,or less that ten(10)acres of prime agricultural
land,shall be included in an agricultural preserve. (Gov. Code, § 51222; Ords. 2003-12 §
5,69-76 § 1 (part)6949 § 1 (part).)
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SECTION VI. Section 810-2.407 is added to the County Ordinance Code, to read:
810-2.407 Standards—Prime agricultural land defined. As used in this title,
prime agricultural land means any of the following:
(a) all land that qualifies for rating as class I or II in the Natural Resource
Conservation Service land use capability classifications;
(b) all land that qualifies for rating 80 through 100 in the Storie Index Rating;
(e) land which supports livestock used for the production of food and fiber and
which has an annual carrying capacity equivalent to at least one animal unit per acre as
defined by the United States Department of Agriculture;
(d)land planted with fruit- or nut-bearing trees,vines,bushes,or crops which have
a nonbearing period of less than five years and which will normally return during the
commercial bearing period on an annual basis from the production of unprocessed
agricultural production not less than two hundred dollars($200)per acre;and,
(e)land which has returned from the production of unprocessed agricultural plant
products an annual gross of not less than two hundred dollars($200)per acre for three of
the previous five years. (Gov. Code, § 51201(c); Ords. 2003-12 § 6.)
SECTION VII. EFFECTIVE DATE.This ordinance becomes effective 30 days after passage,
and within 15 days after the passage shall be published with the names of supervisors voting for or
againstit in the Contra Costa Times, a newspaper published in this County.
PASSED ON May 6, 2003 by the following vote:
AYES: SUPERVISORS GIOIA, UILKEMA, GLOVER & DeSAULNIER
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
DISTRICT III IS VACANT '
ATTEST: JOHN SWEETEN, '
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Board Chair
and County Administrator
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