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facilities and property lines can also mitigate potential adverse impacts by providing separation from <br />neighbors and ample area for buffering. <br />Proposed Draft Ordinance <br />For the Board's consideration, staff has drafted an ordinance that attempts to clarify and specify an <br />interpretation of the code consistent with input from Board members at the March 5th meeting and <br />based on staff's recent research. The approach of the draft ordinance is to simply clarify that in <br />agricultural districts an "off-sitelandscaping services" use associated with a commercial nursery is <br />accessory to the commercial nursery use, and to carefully definethe term "off-site accessory <br />landscaping services". By a careful and thorough definition, the proposed code change would qualify <br />what constitutes an allowable landscaping services use. Through the proposed definition, an off-site <br />accessory landscaping services use in compliance with the proposed code change would: <br />1. Include installation and mowing/trimming maintenance services involving a broad range of <br />landscape material, including grass (lawns), consistent with the code's existing Chapter 901 <br />definition of "landscaping". <br />2. Not include pest control services. <br />3. Not include (and consequently, would not further regulate) services authorized and conducted <br />in compliancewith a home occupation permit. <br />4. Be associated with a legally established nursery. <br />5. Be located on an agriculturally zoned site of at least 400,000 sq. ft. (9.183 acres). <br />6. Be set back (total parking/driveway/building area) at least 50 ft. from property lines. <br />7. Be limited (total parking/driveway/building area) to no more than 50% of the nursery area <br />located on site (total area under cultivation including green houses, grow houses, shade <br />houses, and similar structures). <br />8. Be visually screened (parking area) from adjacent properties and streets. <br />9. Not include or allow for burning, mulching, or dumping off-site debris on the nursery/ <br />landscaping services site. <br />In staff's opinion, the draft ordinance can be used by the Board as a "pending ordinance", applicable <br />to any proposed or future landscaping services use in the A-1, A-2, and A-3 districts while <br />proceeding with the formal LDR amendment process. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />159 <br />