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(c) Agricultural tourism activities in A, FA, IA, RA, and APD districts that do not <br /> conform to section 25-4-15(d) shall obtain a special permit in the state land use <br /> agricultural or rural districts, or a use permit in the state land use urban district. <br /> (d) Agricultural tourism operations shall comply with the following regulations: <br /> (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[thirty <br /> thousand visitors annually;] three hundred fifty visitors per week for a total not <br /> to exceed fifteen thousand visitors annually that access the activity via <br /> passenger vehicles that carry no more than fifteen people per vehicle. Major <br /> agricultural tourism operations shall have a maximum of thirty thousand visitors <br /> annually; <br /> (4) All visitor and employee parking, loading/unloading, and vehicular turn-around <br /> areas shall be located off-street; <br /> [(5) The total area of spaces, including covered decks, lanais, tents or canopies, and <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 agricultural4eurism shall net exceed the gross revenues of <br /> the associated agricultural activity and/or agricultural products processing <br /> 6 <br />