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Agritourism Agritourism is a new use that has been added as a conditional use to the Rural (R) district. Agritourism is defined as "any commercial enterprise that links agricultural production and/or processing with tourism in order to attract visitors onto a farm, ranch, or other agricultural business for the purposes of entertaining and/or educating." By allowing agritourism as a CUP we can address the effects of the use to ensure the site's agriculture and surrounding properties are not affected by the operations and activities of the use. An example of the use is Waldoch Farm. The agritourism standards are in located in the general provisions section of the zoning ordinance similar to other conditional uses with substantial conditions. Rural Clusters Staff has drafted a rural cluster ordinance that will allow cluster developments as a permitted use on parcels located in the Rural (R) and Rural Executive (R-X) districts, which are guided Low Density Residential on the full build land use map and staged in the post-2040 area on the staging plan. The rural cluster ordinance will allow 8 units per 40 acres when utilizing individual septic systems and 12 units per 40 acres when utilizing community septic. Staff is recommending the density bonuses as a tool to provide landowners with additional development opportunities while preserving land for future development with urban services. Performance standards for the rural cluster ordinance will be adopted as part of the general provisions section to ensure that the rural cluster preserves the higher quality natural resources and can transition effectively to urban services when they become available. The performance standards used for the rural cluster ordinance are very similar to the existing rural planned unit development language found in the Zoning Ordinance, which has now been deleted. Some of the language referenced into the draft ordinance is from the conservation subdivision section which is being removed from the Subdivision Ordinance as part of the update and the standards are being utilized as part of the new rural cluster ordinance. The standards that have changed from the rural planned unit development include: • Open space is no longer taken in perpetuity but is instead held until the subject property gains access to municipal sanitary sewer and water services. • The density has been increased by four units per 40 acres for both the base density and bonus density. • Standards have been included for maintenance, management and replacement of community septic systems. • Open space is now required to include a minimum of 25 percent upland area. • Residential lots must be large enough to support a primary and secondary septic system. • Included cluster development definition and added number of units required to be considered a cluster. Liquor Standards 5