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Exhibit G – Year-Round and Extended Seasonal Farmworker Housing – Coastal 26C-320(o)

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Section 26C-320(o) Year-Round and Extended Seasonal Farmworker Housing is revised to read as follows:

Year-Round and Extended Seasonal Farmworker Housing. Year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing shall meet the following standards:

  1. Year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing shall be located on parcels of ten (10) or more acres having an agricultural General Plan land use designation, but may be located on a parcels of 10 acres or more having a resources and rural development General Plan land use designation, provided the parcel is under Williamson Act contract or subject to a conservation easement or agricultural easement.

    Notwithstanding the above, year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing may be located on a parcel five (5) acres or less pursuant to Government Code Section 51230.2, when such farmworker housing otherwise meets the provisions of this subsection and the standards of the underlying zoning district. Such parcels shall be owned or leased by the applicant, unless the parcel is being subdivided pursuant to Government Code Section 51230.2 in which case it shall be owned by a public entity, or by a qualified non-profit agency.
  2. Year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing shall be located on parcels having direct access to a publicly maintained road. If a private road is to provide such access, the applicant shall file with the planning department a written agreement signed by all of the property owners entitled to use such road acknowledging and agreeing to the road=s use as access for the seasonal and extended seasonal farmworker housing.
  3. Year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing located on any parcel shall house no more than thirty-eight (38) workers at any time, unless a use permit is first obtained.
  4. Year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing and support structures shall be set back a minimum of fifty-five feet (55=) from the centerline of any roadway, sixty feet (60=) from any other property line, forty feet (40=) from any other structure, and forty feet (40=) from watering troughs, feed troughs, and accessory buildings. Year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing and support structures shall also be set back seventy-five feet (75=) from barns, pens or similar quarters of livestock or poultry. On parcels adjacent to a residential zoning district, year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing shall be set back a minimum of five hundred feet (500=) from the property line adjacent to the residential zoning district. These setbacks may be reduced if a use permit is first obtained.
  5. Year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing shall have off-street parking provided at the ration of one (1) space per four (4) persons housed. The parking does not need to be covered, but shall be screened from public view by buildings, fences, landscaping or terrain features.
  6. Year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing may be either one (1) or two (2) story structures.
  7. Year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing shall not be located within any floodway.
  8. Year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing located within the one hundred (100) year flood elevation shall have the structure of the finished floor of the living quarters above the one hundred (100) year flood level, but may have a storage area below the living quarters.
  9. Year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing located within the one hundred (100) year flood elevation shall have its septic tank and disposal field at least one hundred feet (100=) removed from the ten (10) year flood elevation unless otherwise authorized by the Director of Permit and Resource Management Department.
  10. Year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing shall be maintained in such a manner so as not to constitute a zoning violation or a health and safety hazard.
  11. Prior to the issuance of a building permit for year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing, the applicant shall place on file with the Permit and Resource Management Department an affidavit that the year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing will be used to house persons employed for agricultural purposes. Further a covenant shall be recorded, in a form satisfactory to County Counsel, acknowledging and agreeing that park and traffic mitigation fees for the year-round and extended seasonal farmworker housing shall be waived unless and until the housing units are no longer used to house persons employed for agricultural purposes and further acknowledging and agreeing that in the event the housing units are converted to some other use the park and traffic mitigation fees existent at the time of conversion shall be immediately due and payable and the housing units shall be either removed or, if the new use is otherwise permitted, brought into compliance with the provisions of this code and state laws in effect at the time of conversion.