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other types of birds, livestock, dogs, etc). To date, staff's experience with animal noise complaints in agricultural areas bears out this distinction between rooster concentrations and concentrations of other animals and birds. Allowing "by right" a reasonable number of roosters on agriculturally necessary for legitimate poultry uses and should be considered o zoned sites is all agricultural areas. Based upon information provided b Agricultural may and compatible in Director Dan Culbert from the University of Florida Institute of F000d and Agriculturaln Service Science (IFAS), and based upon input from interested parties, the Agricultural y Committee (AAC) determined that two dozen (24) roosters on an gnn agricultural Advisory should be allowed "b right',. Y given agricultural site YThe AAC also determined that 25 or more roosters on an agricultural site would reasonably constitute a "specialty farm", and that conditions placed on such a farm should accommodate the use but also provide some visual screening from neighbors that also could provide a small degree of noise attenuation for neighbors (see attachment #5). Staff has given significant weight to the AAC's recommendations and h The proposed LDR amendment would recommendations in the proposed LDR amendment. as used those allow the keeping of up to 24 roosters The as adult male chickens that crow) as a "by right" permitted use in agricultural areas. This standard could be enacted via the proposed definitions contained in section 1 of the proposed ordinance (see attachment #6). Under the 1.Proposed amendment, any site containing 25 or more roosters would be defined as a specialty farm" and would be defined not to be "poultry raisin Permitted use by right). A "specialtyg" ("Poultry raising" is a use as is required for that use unr the existing Lwould �� administrative Permit approval, The proposed LDR amendment would also add specific land use criteria for specialty farms to address concentrations of 25 or more roosters. The "specialty farm" criteria would require concentrations of roosters to be located in a designated area or structure that is set back from surrounding properties by a distance of 75' or more, unless the roosters are kept in an enclosed, soundproofed structure If such a soundproofed structure .is proposed, agricultural zoning district setback would apply (A-1, A-2, and A-3 districts) In addition to the special setbackisound-proofed enclosure criterion, the proposed LDR amendment would require physical buffering similar to the active agricultural buffer standard used elsewhere in the LDRs. Such a buffer (see attachment #7) would provide visual screening and some noise attenuation. Such a buffer could consist of existing vegetation (preserved) and/or planted vegetation located between the site boundaries and the designated rooster area. ALTERNATIVES: There are several alternative approaches the county can take, including the proposed LDR amendment, if it wants to regulate the raising of roosters in agricultural areas. These are: 1 • Establish a threshold number of roosters allowed(e.g. 5 10, 20, 50, r below the threshold threshold, allow that number of roosters on site by right, without c°nditions.oAbove the and bufferinPically classify the og. peration as a "specialty fans" and require special setbacks