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Urban Agriculture. The use of a parcel of land five acres or smaller in size for the cultivation of food and/or horticultural crops, composting, aquaponics, aquaculture and/or hydroponics. This use may include the production of food products from food grown on the premises and accessory keeping of animals or bees subject to City regulations, but does not include cultivation of marijuana.
Use. The purpose or activity for which land or buildings are designed, arranged, or intended or for which land or buildings are occupied or maintained.
Utilities and Communication. A land use category (including individual land uses) including facilities for the provision of infrastructure or communications services that support legally established uses and that need to be located in or near the area where the service is provided. This use includes communal water supply systems; water treatment and pumping stations; water pumping stations; water storage tanks; communal sewer systems; sewage treatment plants and pumping stations; utility substations, transmission; utility substation, distribution; utility transmission lines, and telecommunications facilities. These facilities may be publicly or privately provided. Accessory uses may include control, monitoring, data, or transmission equipment.
Utility, Major. Generating plants, electrical substations on a lot or lots consisting of five or more acres of land, transmission lines operated at 69,000 volts or higher, switching buildings, refuse collection or disposal facilities, water reservoirs, water or wastewater treatment plants, gas compressors, gas mains, gas laterals, and similar scale facilities, as well as associated structures and facilities, that have relatively greater potential for adverse aesthetic and/or environmental impacts than minor utility facilities.
Utility, Minor. This use includes:
1. Electrical substations on a lot or lots consisting of less than five acres of land;
2. Above ground electrical transmission lines, or underground pipelines, flood control or drainage facilities, transportation or communications utilities, and similar facilities of public agencies or utilities; and
3. Utility facilities that are necessary to support legally established uses and involve only minor structures such as electrical distribution lines, poles or cables, switch boxes, transformer boxes, cap banks, and underground water and sewer lines.
4. Minor utility facilities generally do not have employees on-site, and the services may be publicly or privately provided. (Ord. No. 2019-49 § 1, 08-19-2019)