Land Development Ordinance - Amended 11-19-2024

(16) ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION. Decisions made in implementation, administration, or enforcement of development regulations that involve the determination of facts and the application of objective standards set forth in this Land Development Ordinance.

(17) AFFILLIATE (Erosion & Sedimentation Control). The term defining a person that directly, or indirectly through one (1) or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control of another person.

(18) AGRICULTURAL USE (General). The use of land for the primary purpose of obtaining a profit in money by raising, harvesting, and selling crops, or feeding (including grazing), breeding, managing, selling for producing livestock, poultry, furbearing animals, or honeybees, or by dairying and the sale of dairy products, by any other horticultural, floricultural, viticulture use, by animal husbandry, or by any combination thereof. This term shall include incidental retail sales by the producer of products raised on the land that is an agricultural use.

(19) AGRICULTURAL USE (Watershed Protection). The term defining the use of waters for stock watering, irrigation, and other farm purposes.

(20) AGRICULTURAL SERVICES. This term is defined as services to assist with farm production and management including but not limited to associated crop preparation services and harvesting activities, mechanical soil preparation, irrigation system construction, spraying, crop processing and sales not involving a permanent structure. (21) AIRPORT/LANDING STRIP. Any public or privately owned or operated ground facility designed to accommodate landing and takeoff operations of aircraft. If a private ground landing strip, it is intended to accommodate landing and takeoff operations for aircraft used by individual property owners. This term includes a heliport or helipad. (22) ALL-AGED/UNEVEN-AGED (Clear Cutting/Tree Protection). The term defining the practice of managing a forest by periodically selecting and harvesting individual trees or groups of trees from a stand while preserving its natural appearance. (23) ALLEY . A street segment designed to provide access to the rear of the property. Any rear access street that terminates without connecting to another street shall provide an adequate turning radius for emergency and public work vehicles. (24) ALTERATION OF A WATERCOURSE (Flood Damage Prevention) . A dam, impoundment, channel relocation, change in channel alignment, channelization, or change in cross-sectional area of the channel or the channel capacity, or any other form of

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