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SECTION III. DISTRICT REGULATIONS <br />A. "R" Rural District and "R -X" Rural Executive Residential District <br />Purpose. This district is designed and intended to aid in guiding development <br />toward fulfillment of the Comprehensive Plan and to serve the following <br />functions. <br />1. To preserve productive land for agricultural use. <br />2. To maintain "open space" within and near to urban areas. <br />3. To help guide development of urban and rural areas along an orderly <br />design to preserve continuity and efficiency of service. <br />4. To provide a method by which the urban farm can be guided so as to <br />control urban sprawl and still conserve land in an economic status until <br />such time as the need is present for an amendment to the Comprehensive <br />Plan. <br />5. To reduce the possibilities of rural - urban conflicts in establishing types <br />and levels of service, methods of financing the services and needs. To <br />maintain an acceptable per capita cost for such services as sanitary sewer, <br />water, police, fire, road maintenance, school transportation, and others as <br />necessary. <br />Rural & Rural Executive Residential Districts; In the Rural District all signs must <br />comply with the following: <br />1. Residential Identifications; Not more than two (2) square feet of <br />nameplate. <br />2. Institutional Identifications: Churches, schools, parks, etc. allowed up to <br />thirty-two (32) square feet; not higher than eight (8) feet. <br />3. Advertising Signs: Advertising signs, as defined by Section II, Subd. F <br />of Ordinance, are prohibited in the Rural(R) & Rural Executive (R -X) Zoning <br />Districts. <br />4. No Sign shall be closer than ten (10) feet to any property line. <br />4 <br />