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i , <br /> Zoning Code Amendments <br /> January 17,2013 <br /> Page 3 <br /> 2) Only 2 acres are required to have animals other than horses: "There must be at least one <br /> acre for the dwelling and one acre for each animal unit." The code previously indicated <br /> this non-dwelling acre is "in aggregate"but it has never stated for such non-horse animals <br /> that this acre must be pasture. <br /> . The question of fractional animal units begs to be answered. So, on a 1.9 acre lot, there <br /> are two potential interpretations of the code: <br /> - one cannot have any farm animals; or <br /> - one can have 0.9 animal unit-this interpretation hasn't been used, but is arguable <br /> On a 2.0 acre lot (via a CUP in LR districts, and simply as an allowed accessory use in <br /> RR districts) one can have a cow, or a steer, or a donkey, or a burro; or three sheep, or <br /> fifty fowl, or some undefined number of other farm animals. <br /> 3) The Zoning Code definition of"Animal unit"in its assignment of"number of animals per <br /> animal unit" does not address all the animals listed in the Zoning Code definition of <br /> "Farm animals": <br /> 78-1 Definitions: "Farm animals" means cattle, horses, mules, sheep, goats, <br /> llamas, alpacas, swine, ponies, ducks, geese, turkeys, chickens, guinea hens <br /> and honeybees. <br /> Therefore, we do not have in the code a standard for how many pygmy goats or pot- <br /> bellied pigs or llamas or alpacas or ostriches or emus comprise an animal unit - but we <br /> have had most of these in Orono at one time or another. Staff's fall-back administrative <br /> position has been to use MN Dept. of Agriculture (MDA) standards for animal units <br /> based typically on comparing animal weight and manure production - but this does not <br /> necessarily address the many other reasons we might want to limit the numbers of a <br /> certain animal species. And, MDA standards would often result in many more animals <br /> per animal unit than Orono Code allows. Here are some examples: <br /> Number of Animals er Animal Unit <br /> Animal T e Ci of Orono NIDA <br /> Horse 1 1 <br /> Cow under 1,000 lbs. 1 1 <br /> Swine under 55 lbs. Not Addressed 20 <br /> Swine 55-300 lbs. Not Addressed 3 <br /> Shee and Lambs 3 10 <br /> Chicken under 5 lbs. d manure s stem 50 333 <br /> Turkey over 5 lbs. 50 55 <br /> Ducks 50 100 <br /> Animals not listed Not Addressed * <br /> *1,000 lbs. divided by avg.weight of animal <br /> Example: 75 lb. Pygmy goat: 1,000/75= 13 per animal unit <br />