Hallsville A-1 General Agricultural District ordinance (§ 400.350)

A. Purpose. This district is intended to provide for any land-intensive agricultural uses contained within the City, certain public uses, and facilities or activities best located in a more isolated area. The principal land use in an agricultural area or public facility.

B. Permitted Uses. In District A-1, no building, land or premises shall be used and no building shall be hereafter erected, constructed, reconstructed or altered except for one or more of the following uses.

1. Agricultural uses which shall include any use of land consisting of at least two and one-half (2 1/2) acres for the purpose of crops, grazing animals, orchards, trees or forest lands, and any other use pertaining to farm or agricultural research. Such uses shall allow all the types of structures normally associated with these uses, including one (1) dwelling unit (not to include a manufactured home), storage bins, barns, sheds, tool houses, garages, and any other use or facility ancillary to farming or open land.

2. Cemeteries which may include mausoleums thereon.

3. Greenhouses and plant nurseries for wholesaling only.

4. Churches.

5. Public parks and playgrounds.

6. Public buildings, facilities, utilities, parks and playgrounds.

7. Golf courses and country clubs.

8. Hospitals.

9. Manufacture, milling or processing of feed, fertilizer, grain or soil conditioners.