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10.123(3)(f)—(9)(b) construction or maintenance of public roads, to current and future owners of the provisions of be limited in time to project duration. paragraph 1. and 2. of this section. (f) Small scale electric generating stations not (5) Standards for conditional uses in the A-1 requiring approval under section 196.491, Wis. Exclusive Agriculture zoning district. In addition Stats. to the requirements of s. 10.255(2)(h), the zoning (4) Conditional use permits for residences in committee must find that the following standards the A-1 Exclusive Agriculture zoning district. are met before approving any conditional use (a) Application. The following information must permit in the A-1(exclusive agriculture) zoning be submitted with a Conditional Use Permit district. application for a Farm Residence in the A-1 EX (a) The use and its location in the A-1 district: Exclusive Agriculture zoning district are 1. Written description of the farm operation. consistent with the purposes of the district. The description should include the following (b) The use and its location in the A-1 details: Exclusive Agriculture zoning district are a. Location of the farm. reasonable and appropriate, considering b. Size of the farm operation in acres. alternative locations, or are specifically approved c. Crops grown and/or livestock raised. under state or federal law. d. Number of employees, if any, in addition to (c) The use is reasonably designed to farm family members. minimize the conversion of land, at and around e. Summary of farm income derived from the the site of the use, from agricultural use or open farm operation. space use. 2. Completed IRS form "Schedule F — Profit (d) The use does not substantially impair or or Loss from Farming," or subsequent IRS form limit the current or future agricultural use of for reporting farm profit or loss, for the past 3 tax surrounding parcels of land that are zoned for or years. legally restricted to agricultural use. 3. Farm conservation plan obtained from the (e) Construction damage to land remaining in Land Conservation Division of the Dane County agricultural use is minimized and repaired, to the Land & Water Resources Department. All active extent feasible. farms in Dane County have a farm conservation (6)(a) Residential dwellings shall not exceed 2 '/ plan detailing the types/location of crops grown, stories or 35 feet in height. and any on-farm conservation measures (e.g., (b) Accessory buildings shall not exceed 35 grass drainage swales, buffer strips, etc.) feet in height. 4. Map/site plan with aerial photograph (c) For agricultural accessory buildings there showing the farm ownership boundaries. The is no limitation on height. map should clearly identify the location of the (7) Area, frontage, and population density proposed new Farm Residence and driveway regulations. access. (a) The minimum lot size is 35 acres. (b) Permit conditions. (8) Setback requirements. No building, 1. The Zoning Committee shall include a including barns and other farm buildings of any "sunset" provision on any CUP for a residential description whatsoever, shall be erected, moved use issued after December 17, 2009 in the A- or structurally altered so as to be nearer the 1 EX district stating that the CUP shall expire highway than is prescribed by section 10.17. upon sale of the property to an unrelated 3rd (9) Side yard requirements. party. Upon sale of the property to an unrelated (a) Side yards for residential dwellings and 3rd party, a new Conditional Use Permit or residential accessory buildings shall be the same rezoning application must be filed. as for the R-1 Residence District. 2. Any Conditional Use Permit found to be in (b) Accessory buildings, cages or hives for violation of this section may be revoked by the housing of animals or insects shall be located at Zoning Committee, and a zoning change to an least 100 feet from an R-1, R-1A, R-2, R-3, R- appropriate residential district shall be required 3A, or R-4 Residence District, except with to bring the property and residential use into respect to existing structures when the residence compliance with the provisions of this ordinance. district has been created for an existing farm 3. The Zoning Committee shall require the residence or by separating a farm residence recording of a notice document with the Register from a farm property and the separated parcel of Deeds on the subject property notifying has been rezoned to a residence district after or at the time of the division. i Page 10-29 rev. 073113