HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 4970ORDINANCE NO. 4 9 7 0
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 17.32 OF
THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING
TO A (AGRICULTURE ZONE).
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 17.32 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Chapter 17.32 A (AGRICULTURE)
17.32.010 Generally.
17.32.020 Uses permitted.
17.32.030 Uses permitted subject to planning director review and approval.
17.32.040 Building height, yards and distance between buildings on some lot.
17.32.050 A-20 A (agricultural twenty -acre minimum lot size) zone.
17.32.060 A -WR (Agricultural -Water Recharge Combining) zone.
17.32.010 Generally.
The regulations set out in this chapter shall apply in the A agricultural zone unless
otherwise provided in this title.
17.32.020 Uses permitted.
The following uses are permitted in an A zone:
A. Any use permitted in the R-1 zone;
B. Accessory agricultural buildings and uses, including farm buildings, housing for
agricultural workers, garages and implement shelters, provided no livestock or
any building or enclosure used in connection with livestock shall be located
nearer than one hundred feet to the front lot line, nor nearer than fifty feet to
any existing dwelling on any contiguous property, nor nearer than one hundred
feet to any public park, school, hospital or similar institution;
C. Hatching, raising and fattening of chickens, turkeys, or other fowl, or poultry
or rabbits, fish or frogs for domestic or commercial use; provided, that no
commercial poultry pen or coop or commercial rabbitry shall be maintained on
a buildina site containing an area of less than one acre;
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D. Agricultural and horticultural uses including nurseries, greenhouses, orchards,
the keeping of one or more beehives or the raising of field crops, tree crops,
berry or bush crops, or vegetable or flower gardening on a commercial scale;
E. The keeping of bovine animals, horses, mules, sheep, goats and hogs (none
garbage fed); provided, that the number thereof shall not exceed a number
per acre equal to four adult animals in any combination of the foregoing
animals and their immature offspring and; provided, that in no event shall there
be more than five hogs kept on any premises.
17.32.030 Uses permitted subject to planning director review and approval.
The following uses may be permitted subject To review and approval by the
planning director:
Private or public open recreational or sporting uses or events for a period of not
to exceed one week at a time.
17.32.040 Building height, yards and distance between buildings on same lot.
None, except that on parcels or lots of less than fifteen thousand square feet in
area and recorded as a separate lot in the office of the county recorder prior to
the enactment of Ordinance No. 1010 (1954), the parcel or lot may be
occupied by not more than one dwelling unit. Regulations shall be The some as
required in the R-1 zone; provided, that all buildings shall be located not nearer
than one hundred Ten feet from the centerline of any existing or planned public
street or highway.
17.32.050 A-20 A (agricultural twenty -acre minimum lot size) zone.
All permitted uses and regulations in the A -20A (agricultural twenty -acre
minimum lot size) zone shall be the same as for the A zone, except that the
minimum lot size shall not be less than twenty acres.
17.32.060 A -WR (Agricultural - Water Recharge Combining) zone.
All permitted uses and regulations in the A -WR zone shall be the same as for the
A zone, except that "surface water spreading grounds" may also occur as a
permitted use.
SECTION 2.
This Ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the provisions of
the Bakersfield Municipal Code and shall become effective thirty (30) days
from and after the date of its passage.
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HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed and
adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting
thereof held on MAR 0 6 2019 , by the following vote:
AYES COUNCILMEMBER'. RIVERA, GONZALES, WEIR, SMITH, FREEMAN, SULLIVAN, PARLIER
S'. COUNCILMEMBER: WABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBER:
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JULIE DRIMAKIS, CMC
CLERK and Ex Officio Clerk
of the Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED: MAR 06 2019
By: 410444
KAREN 60H
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
VIRGINIA GENNARO
City Attorney
By:
RICHARD IGER,
Deputy City Attorney
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING DOCUMENTS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
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County of Kern )
JULIE DRIMAKIS, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield,
and that on the 121h day of March. 2019 she posted on the Bulletin Board at City Hall, a
full, true and correct copy of the following: Ordinance No. 4970 passed by the
Bakersfield City Council at a meeting held on the 6th day of March 2019 and entitled:
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 17.32 OF THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL
CODE RELATING TO A (AGRICULTURE ZONE).
JULIE DRIMAKIS CMC
City Clerk and Ex Officio of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
By:
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