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(1) [The agricultural activity or agricultural products processing facility] Major <br /> agricultural tourism operations must have a minimum of$10,000 in verifiable <br /> gross sales, exclusive of any income from agricultural tourism activities or any <br /> other non-agricultural activities, for the year preceding the commencement of <br /> the agricultural tourism activity or, in the case of a new agricultural activity or <br /> agricultural products processing facility, provide evidence to the director's <br /> satisfaction that sufficient investment has been made in the planting of crops, <br /> acquisition of livestock, or construction of agricultural products processing <br /> facilities, that the agricultural activity or agricultural processing facility will <br /> achieve the minimum required gross sales; <br /> (2) Agricultural tourism activities shall not commence prior to 8:00 a.m. or <br /> continue past 6:00 p.m. daily; <br /> (3) [The] A minor agricultural tourism operation shall have a maximum of[may <br /> thousand] three hundred fifty visitors per week for a total not to exceed fifteen <br /> thousand visitors annually that access the activity via passenger vehicles that <br /> carry no more than fifteen people per vehicle. Major agricultural tourism <br /> operations shall have a maximum of thirty thousand visitors annually; <br /> (4) All visitor and employee parking, loading/unloading, and vehicular turn-around <br /> areas shall be located off-street; <br /> (5) [ - . . . . .. - , - .. , .. , . . .. - , .. . <br /> gazebos, whether newly constructed or within existing structures, to be utilized <br /> principally for the agricultural tourism activity, but not including parking and <br /> vehicular access areas, shall not exceed one thousand square feet; <br /> (6) Gross revenues from agricultural tourism shall not exceed the gross revenues of <br /> facility, including revenues from adjacent parcels under the same ownership, <br /> except where it can be demonstrated to the director's satisfaction that the gross <br /> agricultural products/processing income is less than fifty percent of the total <br /> income due to unforeseen environmental or economic conditions for not more <br /> than two consecutive years, or, in the case of a new agricultural activity or <br /> agricultural products processing facility, that sufficient investment has been <br /> 6 <br />