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4 • A conditional use permit is required for Commercial Riding Stables subject to the animal unit provisions of Chapter 81. City of Hugo: • Commercial horse training and boarding facilities are conditional use permits in the Agricultural, Rural Residential and Future Urban Service districts subject to Section 90- 233. • Sec. 90-233. - Horse training and boarding facilities. (a) It is unlawful for any person to construct or operate a horse training and/or boarding facility in the city, except in accordance with these regulations. (b) Horse training and boarding facilities offering services to the public, and having the facilities to maintain or care for ten or more horses, must have their principal entrance located on a state highway, county road, or city collector street. (c) The requirements for the keeping of livestock found in this chapter must be met. (d) Horse training facilities may not be used for human living quarters, the preparation of meals, or for similar personal living activities, except as allowed in subsection (e) of this section. (e) Other provisions of this chapter notwithstanding, commercial horse training facilities may provide living quarters for one employee. Such living quarters may be located in the stable. Living quarters for the employees shall meet the standards of the state building code and comply with the standards for an accessory apartment found in this chapter. (f) Other provisions of this chapter notwithstanding, horse training and boarding facilities may be issued a conditional use permit to sell horse care and riding supplies at retail. (g) Horse training facilities that offer boarding, training, or other services to the public shall provide sanitary facilities for the public's use. The sanitary facilities must be constructed in accordance with the state building code, and connected to an individual sewage treatment system or the municipal sanitary sewer system. • Sec. 90-241. - Livestock and poultry. (a) It is unlawful for any person to keep or maintain any animal, domestic or nondomestic, in the city, except in conformance with the requirements of this section. (b) Domestic livestock and poultry may be kept or maintained in the agricultural, long- term agricultural, future urban service, and rural residential zoning districts on parcels of land of five acres or more in size. Two animal units shall be allowed for the first five acres of land, and one additional animal unit shall be allowed for each acre of land in excess of five acres. On parcels of land less than five acres in the agricultural, long-term agricultural, future urban service, and rural residential zoning districts, up to five chickens may be kept or maintained, all of which may not be roosters. For the purposes of this subsection (b), the following conditions shall apply: (1) Adjacent parcels of land under common ownership may be combined to determine the maximum number of animal units allowed, if the parcels are operated as a single enterprise. (2) In instances where a parcel of land consists of a fraction of an acre, the property size shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number to determine the number of animal units allowed.