Ordinance No. 800ORDINANCE NO. 800
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 640, THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY OF CYPRESS, BY ADDING SECTION 12.9 FARM ANIMAL OVERLAY ZONE
AND KNOWN AS AMENDMENT TO THE ZONING ORDINANCE NO. 88 -1.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.9 Farm Animal Overlay Zone - (FA)
Overlay Zone, of Ordinance No. 640, the Zoning Ordinance of the
City of Cypress, is hereby added to read as follows:
SECTION 12.9. FARM ANIMAL - (FA) OVERLAY ZONE
SECTION 12.9 -1 DEFINITION
Farm animals shall be defined as horses, cows, sheep, goats,
hens, roosters and other poultry, and rabbits.
SECTION 12.9 -2. PURPOSES
A. The Farm Animal Overlay Zone (FA) provides regulations for
the keeping of farm animals that presently exist in specific
residential areas for the enjoyment of area residents, and is
clearly an accessory use to the primary designated use of the
land.
B. Such regulations and standards presume a reasonable effort on
the part of the animal owner to recognize the rights of the
surrounding neighbors by maintaining and controlling his /her
animals, in a safe, sanitary, and healthy manner at a reasonable
location, and neither authorizes nor legalizes the maintenance of
any private or public nuisance.
SECTION 12.9 -3 APPLICABILITY
The regulation contained herein shall be considered as a
supplement to the regulations contained in the City's adopted
ordinances which are applicable to the subject property. Refer
to the original zone the property is located in for regulations
that are not established in the overlay zone standards.
SECTION 12.9 -4 PERMITTED AND CONDITIONAL USES
The following uses shall be permitted uses where the symbol "P"
appears and shall be permitted uses subject to a Conditional Use
Permit where the symbol "C" appears in the column beneath each
zone designation:
FA Overlay Zone
RS-6,000 RM-20
RS-6,000-DI
A. Farm Animals
1. Keeping of horses and other P C
farm -type animals subject to
the following conditions:
a. Such animals must be maintained for the personal use
of members of the family residing on the premises.
b. Only one such animal may be maintained on a lot
having less than 15,000 square feet in area; no more than two
animals may he kept on a lot having 15,000 to 20,000 square
feet, or four animals on a lot having 20,001 to 30,000 square
feet, or six animals on a lot having 30,001 square feet to
one-acre in area. Foals under twelve months old (of mares
permanently maintained on the property) may be kept on the
property and not count towards the above maximum permitted
number.
FA Overlay Zone
RS -6,000 RM -20
RS- 6,000 -DI
2. The keeping of farm animals in C C
excess of the standards provided
in #1.b. above.
3. Breeding horses if one of the P C
horses is permanently maintained
on the subject property.
4. Riding academies or riding clubs. C C
5. The keeping of animals for commercial C C
purposes including commercial stables.
6. The keeping of not more than 12 P C
poultry and 12 rabbits for
noncommercial purposes at least
50 feet from where an adjacent
property owner can build a dwelling.
7. The keeping of poultry and rabbits C C
in addition to #6 above.
8. The keeping of wild, exotic or C C
nondomesticated animals.
B. Agricultural Uses
1. All types of agriculture and
horticulture uses for personal use only.
C
SECTION 12.9 -4. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
A. No such animal may be kept closer than 50 feet to where an
adjacent property owner can build a dwelling.
B. The keeping of all animals shall be subject to the regulation
and conditions of the Orange County Health Department, Animal
Control Division.
C. Stables and barns shall be constructed and maintained in
accordance with the building code of the City of Cypress.
D. All fences and gates used tor the enclosure of horses or
other large domestic animals shall be of such design, materials,
and construction as are sufficient to prevent the escape of the
animal or animals enclosed. Fences enclosing horses or cows
shall be of the equivalent strength of a wood fence with four - -by-
four- incur posts, no more than ten feet apart, with three two -by --
six- -inch rails. Electrically charged wires shall be used only to
supplement other tences, and shall meet underwriter's standards
tor electric tences. Barbed wire fences, and electric fences
(except as provided in this section) are prohibited.
E. Trash bin locations shall be screened from public view and
subject to design review.
F. The property shall apply to all applicable health and safety
regulations provided in any other statute or ordinances, and the
following provisions shall apply:
1. Each property owner or lessee is responsible for the
continuous maintenance in a sanitary condition which includes,
but is not limited to, the cleaning of corrals, stables, barns
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and o't'he? areas to which animals have access, and for the
disposal of manure, offal, soiled straw, and other refuse as
required. Animal waste shall not be allowed to accumulate, run
off, or leach so as to create a nuisance or be offensive to other
persons in the vicinity. Manure may be disposed of by removal or
fertilizing. If waste is to be used as compost, proper
procedures must be used to control insects and to minimize
offensive odors.
2. Each lot and structure shall be maintained so that there
is no standing surface water within areas in which large domestic
animals are kept.
3. All buildings used for the keeping of animals and all
corral or enclosure fences shall be constructed and maintained in
a neat and orderly condition and kept in good repair.
4. Property owners or lessees who keep large domestic
animals on their property will carry out a positive program of
fly control (i.e., through the uses of traps, pesticides, etc.)
when necessary to control the fly population.
5. The corral and stable area shall be sprinkled or
otherwise treated to a degree so as to prevent the emanation of
dust, and in addition all accumulation of manure, mud, or refuse
shall be eliminated so as to prevent the breeding of flies.
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, subdivision,
sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this Ordinance, or the
application thereof to any person or place, is for any reason
held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect
the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance or its
application to other persons or places. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance, and each
section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or
portion thereof, irrespective of the tact that any one or more
sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrase
or portion of the application thereof to any person or place, be
declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed
to certify as to the passage of this Ordinance and to give notice
thereof by causing copies of this Ordinance to be posted in three
public places throughout the City.
FIRST READ at an adjourned regular meeting of the City Council of said
City held on the 24th day of May 1988, and finally adopted and ordered posted
at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 13th day of June 1988.
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M YO OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
ATTEST:
CI CLER OF TH? CITY OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO
HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted at a
regular meeting of the said City Council held on the 13th day of
June 1988, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: 4 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Davis, Kanel, Mullen and Arnold
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT:1 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Coronado
CITi CCL E K OF THE Y OF CYPRESS
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