HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 5185ORDINANCE NO. 8
ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 17.32 OF THE
BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO A
AGRICULTURAL 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 AGRICULTURAL 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. One single -unit dwelling;
B. Housing, employee, agriculture;
C. 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;
D. 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 building site containing an area of less than one acre;
E. Agricultural and horticultural uses including nurseries, greenhouses, orchards,
the keeping of one or more be-ehives.or the raising of field crops, tree crops, berry
or bush crops, or vegetable or flower gardening on a commercial scale;
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F. 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 same 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-20A (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, some 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
SEP 1 12024 by the following vote:
YE , COUNCILMEMBER: ARIAS, GONZALES, , SMITH, FREEMAN, GRAYAAYR
NOES: COUNCILMEMBER:
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBER:
BSENT COUNCILMEMBER: k(-C�A a J�
JULIE DRIMAKIS, CPMC, MMC
CITY CLERK and Ex Officio Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED: EP 1 1 202
By:
KAREN GOH
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
VIRGINIA GENNARO
City Attorney
VIRIDIANA GALLARDO-KING
Deputy City Attorney
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING DOCUMENTS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
County of Kern )ss.
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 17th day of --September 2024 she posted on the
Bulletin Board at City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of the following:
Ordinance No. 5185, passed by the Bakersfield City Council at a meeting held
on the 11 th day of September 2024 and entitled:
ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER .17.32 OF THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE
RELATING TO A AGRICULTURAL ZONE.
JULIE DRIMAKIS, MMC
City Clerk `and Ex' Officio of the
Counci[ 6-f.the City of Bakersfield
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